Acts 8:23
For I see you are in bitter gall and the bond of haresha. + 8:23 Dt 29:18 TARGUM HASHIVIM; Jer 4:18; Isa 58:6
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:18And it come to pass, when he heareth the divrei haalah (words of this oath, imprecation) that he bless himself in his lev, saying, Shalom be with me, though I walk in the stubbornness of mine lev — thus bringing disaster on both the watered and the thirsty.
Job 20:14Yet his lechem in his stomach is turned sour; 1 it is the venom of vipers within him. 1
Proverbs 5:22His own avonot shall entrap the rashah himself, 1 and he shall be held fast by the cords of his chattat. 1
Isaiah 58:6Is not this the tzom that I have chosen? 1 To loose the chartzubbot resha (chains of wickedness, injustice), 1 to undo the aguddot motah (bindings of the yoke bar), 1 and to let the retzutzim (oppressed ones) go as chafeshim (free ones), 1 and that ye break kol motah (every yoke of oppression)? 1
Jeremiah 9:15I will scatter them also among the Goyim, whom neither they nor their avot have known; and I will send a cherev after them, till I have consumed them. 1
Lamentations 3:19Remember mine oni (affliction) and my misery, 1 the sorrow and the trouble. 1
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 →