Acts 8:19

saying: Give me also this prerogative, that he on whom I impose a hand, may receive the Holy Spirit.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

18And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of a hand of the legates, the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,

20Simon Cephas said to him: Thy money go with thee to perdition! because thou hast supposed, that the gift of God may be purchased by a worldly substance.

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Cross References

Luke 14:7And he spoke a similitude to the guests that were present, as he noticed how they chose places on the highest couches.

Acts 8:9And there was a certain man there, whose name was Simon, who had resided in that city a long time, and who seduced the people of the Samaritans by his sorceries, magnifying himself, and saying, I am a great personage.

1 Corinthians 15:8And last of them all, he was seen by me, as it were by an abortion.

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 →

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