Acts 8:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And there was great joy in that city.

Acts 8:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 13:52
And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
Isaiah 35:1-2
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. …
Psalms 98:2-6
The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. …
Acts 8:39
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.
Psalms 96:10-12
Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously. …

Topics

Gladness Happiness Joy Laughter Peace Pleasure Righteous Spiritual Peace

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-13)

Samson’s riddle is here again unriddled: Out of the eater comes forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness. The persecution that was designed to extirpate the church was by the overruling providence of God made an occasion of the enlargement of it. Christ had said, I am come to send fire on the earth; and they thought, by scattering those who were kindled with that fire, to have put it out, but i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

6-8. the people with one accord gave heed to ... Philip--the way being prepared perhaps by the fruits of our Lord’s sojourn, as He Himself seems to intimate (see on Joh 4:31-38). But “we may mark the providence of God in sending a Grecian, or a Hellenistic Jew, to a people who from national antipathy would have been unlikely to attend to a native of Judea” [Webster and Wilkinson].