The Christian communion: Sold a field he owned, brought the money, and turned it over to the apostles. Acts 4:37

The Book of Acts recounts the early days of the Church after Pentecost by describing the life in common of the apostles and the first followers of Jesus; the words of many prophets, especially those of Joel, began to take shape with this miracle of God. The intention of the writer of the Book, probably the apostle Luke, is to show to the readers of the sacred text how the holy spirit transformed and gave life to the hearts of the believers in the Lord.
And one of the most interesting things is that the Book of Acts shows as something of the daily life some of the most important teachings of the apostles Paul and John in their epistles: concupiscence, that is, the inclination of hearts to sin, was absent through the work of the spirit of wisdom, and the Book of Acts describes this spiritual fact with these words: "Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common" Acts 4:32. With these beautiful words, the author of the Book described something fundamental in the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, the dominion or empire of the divine perfections, the communion, the ethical order of society.
And this ethical order described by the Book is more than the common good; it is the very union of souls and hearts in the contemplative life or eternal life. And the book, after praising the life led by the first Christians in communion with God, gave a concrete example on this subject. A Levite named Barnabas, who would later be a companion of the apostle Paul on his first missionary journey, upon selling a field, put all the money raised at the disposal of the apostles. With these words, the book relates the fact: "And so it was that Joseph, a Levite born in Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas, sold a field he owned, brought the money, and turned it over to the apostles" Acts 4:36-37. With this, the apostle Luke, author of the book, taught how Christian communion is one of the most important pillars or signs of faith in Jesus, a spiritual sign inextricably linked to that new baptism not in water but in salt and fire.

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