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Acts 8:17 KJV
Acts · chapter 8 · verse 17
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.Acts 8:17 · King James Version
Acts 8:17 in context
15Who, 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.)
17Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
18And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
19Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
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Key words (Strong's)
- receivedlambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
- handscheirby the help or agency of any one, by means of any one, fig. applied to God symbolising…G5495 →
- Holyhagiosmost holy thing, a saintG40 →
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God had wonderfully owned Philip in his work as an evangelist at Samaria, but he could do no more than an evangelist; there were some peculiar powers reserved to the apostles, for the keeping up of the dignity of their office, and here we have an account of what was done by two of them there - Peter and John.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-25