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Acts 8:17
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Then layde they their hands on them, and they receiued the holy Ghost.
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.
Then, when the two apostles began laying their hands on the people, they received the Holy Spirit.
Then Peter and John laid their hands on them [one by one], and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.
Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.
Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Peter and John then placed their hands on everyone who had faith in the Lord, and they were given the Holy Spirit.
Then, as Kefa and Yochanan placed their hands on them, they received the Ruach HaKodesh.
Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received [the] Holy Spirit.
When the two apostles laid their hands on the people, they received the Holy Spirit.
Then layd they their handes on them, and they receiued the holy Ghost.
Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then they placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then they put their hands on them, and the Holy Spirit came on them.
Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Ruach HaKodesh.
Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.Acts 6:6; 19:6; Hebrews 6:2;">[xr]
Then they laid upon them the hand, and they received the Spirit of Holiness.
Then they laid the hand on them; and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then layde they their handes on the, and they receaued the holy ghost.
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Then the Apostles placed their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Thanne thei leiden hoondis on hem, and thei resseyueden the Hooli Goost.
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then they laid [their] hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then Peter and John laid their hands upon these believers, and they received the Holy Spirit.
They laid their hands on them and the followers received the Holy Spirit.
Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then, proceeded they to lay their hands upon them, and they were receiving Holy Spirit.
Then they laid their hands upon them: and they received the Holy Ghost.
Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then layde they their hondes on them and they receaved the holy goost.
then were they laying hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Then layed they their hades on them, and they receaued the holy goost.
Jesus) the apostles therefore gave them imposition of hands, and they received the holy spirit.
Then Pete and John placed their hands on the people, and the Holy Spirit filled the new believer's lives.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
laid: Acts 8:18, Acts 6:6, Acts 9:17, Acts 13:3, Acts 19:6, Numbers 8:10, Numbers 27:18, 1 Timothy 4:14, 1 Timothy 5:22, 2 Timothy 1:6, Hebrews 6:2
they received: Romans 1:11, Galatians 3:2-5
Reciprocal: Genesis 48:14 - and laid Deuteronomy 34:9 - Moses 2 Kings 2:9 - Ask what Acts 8:19 - General Galatians 2:8 - he
Cross-References
God blessed them: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”
In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry.
Then God spoke to Noah,
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”
He blesses them, and they multiply greatly;he does not let their livestock decrease.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then laid they their hands on them,.... The Ethiopic version adds, "who had been baptized"; but not upon all of them, men and women, only on some they were directed unto by the Spirit of God; whom he had designed, and now would qualify for the work of the ministry, that so this new church, might be supplied with proper officers, pastors, and teachers, to feed them with knowledge and with understanding, and who might not only have ministerial gifts to qualify them for preaching the Gospel, but extraordinary ones, which would serve for the confirmation of it; and for this purpose the apostles, "both" of them, as the Arabic version reads, laid their hands on them: for it will not seem probable, that they laid their hands upon the women, on such an account; and it will hardly be received, that they should lay their hands on Simon Magus, otherwise he would have received the Holy Ghost too; so that it seems a plain case, that imposition of hands was not used to them all:
and they received the Holy Ghost; that is, they received the gifts of the Holy Ghost; so that they could prophesy and speak with tongues, and heal diseases, and do other wonderful works: and since now these effects have ceased, the rite and ceremony which was peculiar to the apostles as such, it should seem should cease likewise.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Then laid they their hands ... - This was an act of âprayer,â expressing an invocation to God that he would impart the blessing to âthem.â On âhow manyâ they laid their hands is not said. It is evident that it was not on âall,â for they did not thus lay hands on Simon. Perhaps it was done on a few of the more prominent and leading persons, who were to be employed particularly in bearing witness to the truth of the gospel. It was customary to lay the hands on any person when a âfavorâ was to be conferred or a blessing imparted. See notes on Matthew 9:18.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 8:17. Then laid they their hands on them — Probably only on some select persons, who were thought proper for public use in the Church. They did not lay hands on all; for certainly no hands in this way were laid on Simon.
