Acts 8:19

saying: Give me, also, this authority, that whoever I shall lay my hands on, may receive the Holy Spirit.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

In Context

18And when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the hands of the apostles, he offered them money,

20But Peter said to him: Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God might be purchased with money.

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Cross References

Luke 14:7And he spoke a parable to those who had been invited, when he observed how they were choosing the first places at table; and he said to them:

Acts 8:9But there was a certain man, named Simon, who had, before this time, been practicing magic in the city, and astonishing the people of Samaria, saying that he was some great one;

1 Corinthians 15:8Last of all, he was seen by me also, as one untimely born.

Matthew Henry on Acts 8:15-26

The Account of Simon Magus. 14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. 18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was… Read the whole commentary →

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