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Acts 8:24 KJV
Acts · chapter 8 · verse 24
Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the LORD for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.Acts 8:24 · King James Version
Acts 8:24 in context
22Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
23For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
24Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the LORD for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
25And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
26And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- answeredapokrinomaito give an answer to a question proposed, to answer, to begin to speak, but always where…G611 →
- spokenereōto utter, speak, sayG2046 →
- SimonsimōnPeter = " a rock or stone" , Peter was one of the apostles, Simon called Zelotes…G4613 →
- saideiponto speak, sayG2036 →
- Praydeomaito want, lack, to desire, long for, to ask, beg, the thing asked for, to pray, make…G1189 →
- Lordkyrioshe to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding master, lord…G2962 →
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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