Acts 8:24
And Simon, answering, said, Make prayer for me to the Lord, so that these things which you have said may not come on me.
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23For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.
Cross References
Genesis 20:17Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.
Exodus 10:17Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only.
Numbers 21:7Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.
1 Samuel 12:23And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.
Ezra 6:10So that they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons.
Job 42:8And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
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 →