Acts 8:23

For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of wickedness.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

In Context

22Therefore do thou penance for this wickedness of thee (or And so repent for this wickedness of thine), and pray God, if peradventure this thought of thine heart be forgiven to thee.

24And Simon answered, and said, Pray ye for me to the Lord, (so) that nothing of these things that ye have said, come on me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:18Lest peradventure among you be man either woman, family either lineage, whose heart is turned away today from your Lord God, that he go, and serve the gods of those folks; and a root burgeoning gall and bitterness be among you; (Lest there be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart today is turned away from the Lord your God, so that they go, and serve the gods of those nations; and there be a root burgeoning gall and bitterness among you;)

Job 20:14His bread in his womb shall be turned into the gall of snakes within him.

Proverbs 5:22The wickednesses of a wicked man take (hold of) him; and he is bound with the ropes of his sins.

Isaiah 58:6Whether not this is more the fasting, which I choose? Unbind thou the bindings together of unpity, either of cruelty, release thou [the] burdens pressing down; deliver thou them free, that be broken, and break thou each burden. (Rather, is not this the fast, which I would choose? To unbind the bindings up of pitilessness, or of cruelty, to release the burdens of oppression, to set free those who be broken, and to break each burden.)

Jeremiah 9:15therefore the Lord of hosts, God of Israel, saith these things, Lo! I shall feed this people with wormwood, and I shall give to them (to) drink the water of gall (or and I shall give them the water of gall to drink).

Lamentations 3:19Have thou mind on my poverty, and going over, and on wormwood and gall. (Remember my poverty, and my goings about, yea, the wormwood and the gall.)

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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