Acts 8:14
When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John.
Text-Critical English NT
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In Context
15These two went down and prayed for the Samaritan believers to receive the Holy Spirit,
Cross References
Matthew 13:23But the seed sown on the good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who bears fruit and produces a hundred, sixty, or thirty times more than what was sown.”
John 12:48He who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Acts 3:1One day Peter and John were going up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Acts 11:1Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Acts 15:4When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported all that God had done through them.
Galatians 2:9When James, Cephas, and John, who were esteemed as pillars of the church, recognized the grace given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and that they should go to the circumcised.
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 →