Who distributed the money in the early Jerusalem church's common fund?
The twelve apostles, including Peter, James, and John, distributed the money. Believers sold possessions and goods and placed everything into a common fund, and the apostles parceled it out to the believing Jews in Jerusalem according to each person's need.
Les explains that this was a total communal system of living in the early Jerusalem church. Whatever the believers had, they put into a common kitty, and the twelve—Peter, James, John, and the others—parceled it out to these believing Jews according to their needs. This occurred in Jerusalem among Jewish believers who were of one heart and one soul, and the apostles gave witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power.
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.