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Acts 8:7 KJV
Acts · chapter 8 · verse 7
For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.Acts 8:7 · King James Version
Acts 8:7 in context
5Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
6And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
7For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
8And there was great joy in that city.
9But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- possessedechōto haveG2192 →
- uncleanakathartosnot cleansed, unclean, in a ceremonial sense that which must be abstained from according…G169 →
- spiritspneumathe third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father…G4151 →
- palsiesparalyōto loose on one side or from the side, to loose or part things placed side by side, to…G3886 →
- cryingboaōto raise a cry, of joy pain etc., to cry, speak with a high, strong voice, to cry to one…G994 →
- voicephōnēa sound, a tone, of inanimate things, as musical instruments, a voice, of the sound of…G5456 →
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Samson's riddle is here again unriddled: Out of the eater comes forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness. The persecution that was designed to extirpate the church was by the overruling providence of God made an occasion of the enlargement of it. Christ had said, I am come to send fire on the earth;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-13