Acts 8:1-3
THE GOSPEL PLANTED IN SAMARIA. The burial of Stephen and the hatred of Saul:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOSPEL PLANTED IN SAMARIA. The burial of Stephen and the hatred of Saul:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAUL WAS CONSENTING UNTO HIS DEATH. AND AT THAT TIME THERE WAS A GREAT PERSECUTION AGAINST THE CHURCH WHICH WAS AT JERUSALEM; AND THEY WERE ALL SCATTERED ABROAD THROUGHOUT THE REGIONS OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA, EXCEPT THE APOSTLES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DEVOUT MEN CARRIED STEPHEN TO HIS BURIAL, AND MADE GREAT LAMENTATION OVER HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS FOR SAUL, HE MADE HAVOC OF THE CHURCH, ENTERING INTO EVERY HOUSE, AND, HALING MEN AND WOMEN, COMMITTED THEM TO PRISON. The young man Saul had been a witness of Stephen's stoning, and had considered it an honor to watch the clothes of the men that began the stoning, chap. 7:58. It is here expressl... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE THEY THAT WERE SCATTERED ABROAD WENT EVERYWHERE, PREACHING THE WORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The missionary work of the disciples and of Philip:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PHILIP WENT DOWN TO THE CITY OF SAMARIA, AND PREACHED CHRIST UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PEOPLE WITH ONE ACCORD GAVE HEED UNTO THOSE THINGS WHICH PHILIP SPAKE, HEARING AND SEEING THE MIRACLES WHICH HE DID.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WAS GREAT JOY IN THAT CITY. While the apostles remained in Jerusalem with the small remnant of the former large congregation, escaping personal injury probably only because of a superstitious fear of their power to perform miracles, the disciples that were driven from Jerusalem by the pers... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN, CALLED SIMON, WHICH BEFORE TIME IN THE SAME CITY USED SORCERY, AND BEWITCHED THE PEOPLE OF SAMARIA, GIVING OUT THAT HE HIMSELF WAS SOME GREAT ONE;... [ Continue Reading ]
The conversion of Simon:... [ Continue Reading ]
TO WHOM THEY ALL GAVE HEED, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST, SAYING, THIS MAN IS THE GREAT POWER OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TO HIM THEY HAD REGARD, BECAUSE THAT OF LONG TIME HE HAD BEWITCHED THEM WITH SORCERIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THEY BELIEVED PHILIP PREACHING THE THINGS CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, THEY WERE BAPTIZED, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SIMON HIMSELF BELIEVED ALSO; AND WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED, HE CONTINUED WITH PHILIP, AND WONDERED, BEHOLDING THE MIRACLES AND SIGNS WHICH WERE DONE. Luke here adds a bit of local history which makes the victory of the Gospel stand out all the more strongly. A certain man there had been before these... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN THE APOSTLES WHICH WERE AT JERUSALEM HEARD THAT SAMARIA HAD RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD, THEY SENT UNTO THEM PETER AND JOHN,... [ Continue Reading ]
Special gifts of the Holy Spirit:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO, WHEN THEY WERE COME DOWN, PRAYED FOR THEM THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS YET HE WAS FALLEN UPON NONE OF THEM; ONLY THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS).... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN LAID THEY THEIR HANDS ON THEM, AND THEY RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST. The apostles never undertook to exercise hierarchical powers and to assume a jurisdiction which they did not possess. But they had been commissioned by Christ as the teachers unto all nations and therefore were anxious to establis... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN SIMON SAW THAT THROUGH LAYING ON OF THE APOSTLES' HANDS THE HOLY GHOST WAS GIVEN, HA OFFERED THEM MONEY,... [ Continue Reading ]
The blasphemous demand of Simon:... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, GIVE ME ALSO THIS POWER, THAT ON WHOMSOEVER I LAY HANDS, HE MAY RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PETER SAID UNTO HIM, THY MONEY PERISH WITH THEE, BECAUSE THOU HAST THOUGHT THAT THE GIFT OF GOD MAY BE PURCHASED WITH MONEY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST NEITHER PART NOR LOT IN THIS MATTER; FOR THY HEART IS NOT RIGHT IN THE EIGHT OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
REPENT THEREFORE OF THIS THY WICKEDNESS, AND PRAY GOD IF PERHAPS THE THOUGHT OF THINE HEART MAY BE FORGIVEN THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I PERCEIVE THAT THOU ART IN THE GALL OF BITTERNESS AND IN THE BOND OF INIQUITY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN ANSWERED SIMON AND SAID, PRAY YE TO THE LORD FOR ME THAT NONE OF THESE THINGS WHICH YE HAVE SPOKEN COME UPON ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. The faith of Simon the Magician had undoubtedly been real enough in the beginning, and he had not acted the hypocrite when he asked to be baptized.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH. The divine commission to Philip:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND 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,... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS RETURNING, AND, SITTING IN HIS CHARIOT, READ ESAIAS, THE PROPHET. Through the visit of Peter and John the congregation of Samaria had been so thoroughly established and furnished with special gifts of the Spirit that Philip could well be spared for other missionary work. And so an angel of the L... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE SPIRIT SAID UNTO PHILIP, GO NEAR AND JOIN THYSELF TO THIS CHARIOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The text from Isaiah:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PHILIP RAN THITHER TO HIM, AND HEARD HIM READ THE PROPHET ESAIAS, AND SAID, UNDERSTANDEST THOU WHAT THOU READEST?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, HOW CAN I EXCEPT SOME MAN SHOULD GUIDE ME? AND HE DESIRED PHILIP THAT HE WOULD COME UP AND SIT WITH HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PLACE OF THE SCRIPTURE WHICH HE READ WAS THIS, HE WAS LED AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER; AND LIKE A LAMB DUMB BEFORE HIS SHEARER, SO OPENED HE NOT HIS MOUTH;... [ Continue Reading ]
IN HIS HUMILIATION HIS JUDGMENT WAS TAKEN AWAY; AND WHO SHALL DECLARE HIS GENERATION? FOR HIS LIFE IS TAKEN FROM THE EARTH. Philip had followed the command of the angel; he had gone to the place to which he was directed, and was ready for further directions. These were given him by the prompting of... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE EUNUCH ANSWERED PHILIP AND SAID, I PRAY THEE, OF WHOM SPEAKETH THE PROPHET THIS, OF HIMSELF OR OF SOME OTHER MAN?... [ Continue Reading ]
The baptism of the eunuch:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PHILIP OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND BEGAN AT THE SAME SCRIPTURE, AND PREACHED UNTO HIM JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY WENT ON THEIR WAY, THEY CAME UNTO A CERTAIN WATER; AND THE EUNUCH SAID, SEE, HERE IS WATER; WHAT DOTH HINDER ME TO BE BAPTIZED?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PHILIP SAID, IF THOU BELIEVEST WITH ALL THINE HEART, THOU MAYEST. AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID, I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE COMMANDED THE CHARIOT TO STAND STILL; AND THEY WENT DOWN BOTH INTO THE WATER, BOTH PHILIP AND THE EUNUCH; AND HE BAPTIZED HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY WERE COME UP OUT OF THE WATER, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAUGHT AWAY PHILIP THAT THE EUNUCH SAW HIM NO MORE; AND HE WENT ON HIS WAY REJOICING.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PHILIP WAS FOUND AT AZOTUS; AND PASSING THROUGH, HE PREACHED IN ALL THE CITIES, TILL HE CAME TO CAESAREA. We may well imagine the scene: a fine autumn day, the comparatively uninhabited plain extending on either side, the driver of the chariot half-dozing over his lines, the two men poring over... [ Continue Reading ]