Acts 8:19
‘Give me also this power of yours, so that, if I place my hands on anyone, he may receive the Holy Spirit.’
Open English Bible (UK)
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
Cross References
Luke 14:7Observing that the guests were choosing the best places for themselves, Jesus told them this parable –
Acts 8:9There was staying in the city a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic there and mystifying the Samaritan people, giving himself out to be some great being.
1 Corinthians 15:8Last of all, he appeared even to me, who am, as it were, a miscarried baby – born untimely.
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 →