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Acts 8:25 KJV
Acts · chapter 8 · verse 25
And 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.Acts 8:25 · King James Version
Acts 8:25 in context
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.
27And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- testifieddiamartyromaito testify, earnestly, religiously to charge, to attest, testify to, solemnly affirm, to…G1263 →
- JerusalemierousalēmJerusalem = " set ye double peace" , denotes either the city itself or the…G2419 →
- preachedlaleōto utter a voice or emit a sound, to speak, to use the tongue or the faculty of speech…G2980 →
- returnedhypostrephōto turn back, to turn about, to returnG5290 →
- villageskōmēthe common sleeping place to which labourers in the field return, a village, the name of…G2968 →
- gospeleuangelizōto bring good news, to announce glad tidings, used in the OT of any kind of good news, of…G2097 →
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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