Acts 8:19

Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit. This was evidently a plan for recovering, through the new Faith, that influence over the people as wonder-worker which their conversion to Christ had quite destroyed; revealing not only how entirely his conversion, such as it was, had failed to check his spiritual ambition, but how ignorant be was of the first principles of that Gospel which he bad embraced.