Acts 8:19
saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
Revised Version 1895
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 14:7And he spake a parable unto those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief seats; saying unto them,
Acts 8:9But there was a certain man, Simon by name, which beforetime in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
1 Corinthians 15:8and last of all, as unto one born out of due time, he appeared to me also.
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 →