Acts 8:17
New International Version
Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

New Living Translation
Then Peter and John laid their hands upon these believers, and they received the Holy Spirit.

English Standard Version
Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Berean Literal Bible
Then they began laying the hands upon them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

King James Bible
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

New King James Version
Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

New American Standard Bible
Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.

NASB 1995
Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.

NASB 1977
Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.

Amplified Bible
Then Peter and John laid their hands on them [one by one], and they received the Holy Spirit.

Christian Standard Bible
Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

American Standard Version
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they were laying hands upon them, and they were receiving The Spirit of Holiness.

Contemporary English Version
Peter and John then placed their hands on everyone who had faith in the Lord, and they were given the Holy Spirit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

English Revised Version
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and the Samaritans received the Holy Spirit.

Good News Translation
Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

International Standard Version
Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Literal Standard Version
then they were laying hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Majority Standard Bible
Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

New American Bible
Then they laid hands on them and they received the holy Spirit.

NET Bible
Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, and they received the Holy Spirit.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

New Heart English Bible
Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Weymouth New Testament
Then the Apostles placed their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

World English Bible
Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Young's Literal Translation
then were they laying hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Simon the Sorcerer
16For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. 17Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. 18When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money.…

Cross References
Mark 5:23
and pleaded with Him urgently, "My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live."

Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Acts 6:6
They presented these seven to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.

Acts 8:18
When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money.

Acts 19:6
And when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.


Treasury of Scripture

Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

laid.

Acts 8:18
And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

Acts 6:6
Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

Acts 9:17
And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

they received.

Romans 1:11
For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

Galatians 3:2-5
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? …

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Acts 8
1. By occasion of the persecution in Jerusalem, the church being planted in Samaria,
4. by Philip the deacon, who preached, did miracles, and baptized many;
9. among the rest Simon the sorcerer, a great seducer of the people;
14. Peter and John come to confirm and enlarge the church;
15. where, by prayer and imposition of hands giving the Holy Spirit;
18. when Simon would have bought the like power of them,
20. Peter sharply reproving his hypocrisy and covetousness,
22. and exhorting him to repentance,
25. together with John preaching the word of the Lord, return to Jerusalem;
26. but the angel sends Philip to teach and baptize the Ethiopian Eunuch.














(17) Then laid they their hands on them.--The act had already appeared as at once the symbol and the channel of the communication of spiritual gifts and offices in the appointment of the Seven. (See Note on Acts 6:6.) Historically, the act here recorded has the interest of being the starting-point of what afterwards developed into the rite known as Confirmation. Taking the narrative of the Acts by itself, a question might be raised how far what we read of was normal or exceptional, connected, for a time only, with the bestowal of new and marvellous powers, or powerful, through the whole history of the Church, as a means of grace strengthening the spiritual life after those powers had been withdrawn. In any case it was probable that no hard and fast line marked the disappearance of the special and marvellous forms of spiritual power which were at first manifested in connection with the laying-on of hands, and so the practice had time to become part of the fixed order of the Church. When they ceased altogether we can understand the reluctance of men to give up a rite that had come down from the days of the Apostles. They would feel that the prayer of faith was still mighty to prevail; that the Spirit would still be given in answer to prayer joined with the symbolic act, though no longer in the same form, and would confirm and strengthen the work which had been begun in baptism, and so the primitive laying-on of hands passed into Confirmation, and was accompanied by other symbolic acts, such as anointing. The thought that it is so called because in it adults confirm the promises made for them when baptised as infants, is entirely modern, and cannot be traced further back than the sixteenth century.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Then
τότε (tote)
Adverb
Strong's 5119: Then, at that time. From ho and hote; the when, i.e. At the time that.

[Peter and John] laid
ἐπετίθεσαν (epetithesan)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2007: To put, place upon, lay on; I add, give in addition. From epi and tithemi; to impose.

[their]
τὰς (tas)
Article - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

hands
χεῖρας (cheiras)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 5495: A hand.

on
ἐπ’ (ep’)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

them,
αὐτούς (autous)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

they received
ἐλάμβανον (elambanon)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2983: (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of.

[the] Holy
Ἅγιον (Hagion)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 40: Set apart by (or for) God, holy, sacred. From hagos; sacred.

Spirit.
Πνεῦμα (Pneuma)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4151: Wind, breath, spirit.


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