19Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
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And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, …
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? …
I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
But 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
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-25)God had wonderfully owned Philip in his work as an evangelist at Samaria, but he could do no more than an evangelist; there were some peculiar powers reserved to the apostles, for the keeping up of the dignity of their office, and here we have an account of what was done by two of them there— Peter and John . The twelve kept together at Jerusalem (Acts 8:1), and thither these good tidings were bro…
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