Acts 8:10

Everyone, high and low, paid attention to him. ‘This man,’ they used to say, ‘must be that power of God which people call “The Great Power.”’

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In The King James Version

To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

In Context

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.

11And they paid attention to him because they had for a long time been mystified by his magic arts.

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Cross References

Acts 14:11and the crowd, seeing what Paul had done, called out in the Lycaonian language, “The Gods have come down to us in human form.”

1 Corinthians 1:24but to those who have received the call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God!

Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching and by people’s trickery and craftiness;

Revelation 13:3One of its heads seemed to me to have been mortally wounded, but its deadly wound had been healed. The whole earth followed the Beast, wondering;

Matthew Henry on Acts 8:5-14

The Spreading of the Gospel; Philip's Success. 4 Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. 5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. 6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in… Read the whole commentary →

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