When Simon sees the Spirit descend on the believers, he offers Peter money to buy the power to give the Spirit to people.

When the apostles began hear what was happening in Samaria, they send Peter and John, apparently to get some kind of a better report of what was going on.

13 янв. 2019 г. · The delay is a literary device to assists readers establish the linking role of the Holy Spirit in building bridges of reconciliation among all Global peoples.

23 авг. 2023 г. · The believing Samaritans had been baptized in water, but, for God's own reasons, they had not yet been baptized in the Spirit.

Simon thought he could buy the power of the Holy Spirit. The only way to receive the power of God is to turn from sin and towards Christ.

David Guzik commentary on Acts 8 describes the persecution of the church through Saul, but people like the Ethiopian official, get saved everywhere.

The twelve kept together at Jerusalem (Acts 8:1), and thither these good tidings were brought them that Samaria had received the word of God (Acts 8:14), that a ...

Commentary on Acts 8:14-25 Simon Magus was ambitious to have the honour of an apostle, but cared not at all to have the spirit and disposition of a Christian. ...

They sent unto them Peter and John. The selection of these two chief apostles shows the great importance attached to the conversion of the Samaritans.

In this chapter we have an account of the persecutions of the Christians, and the propagating of Christianity thereby.