Acts 8:20

"Perish your money and yourself," replied Peter, "because you have imagined that you can obtain God's free gift with money!

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

In Context

19"Give me too," he said, "that power, so that every one on whom I place my hands will receive the Holy Spirit."

21No part or lot have you in this matter, for your heart is not right in God's sight.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:8Cure the sick, raise the dead to life, cleanse lepers, drive out demons: you have received without payment, give without payment.

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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