1. Acts 5:6 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Who were the young men who carried Ananias out and buried him?

Acts 5:6 (ESV)

6 The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.

The young men are not a specific office in the church. Aged between eighteen and twenty-four, these unmarried men1 step forward to wrap Ananias' body and carry him out for burial. Given the fact that they did not have refrigerators and lived in a hot climate, burial typically took place on the same day as death.2