Acts 8:12

World English Bible (2000)

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

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  • Acts 1:3 : 3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.
  • Acts 2:38 : 38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Acts 2:41 : 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
  • Matt 28:19 : 19 Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
  • Mark 16:15-16 : 15 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
  • Luke 9:2 : 2 He sent them forth to preach the Kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
  • Luke 9:60 : 60 But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."
  • Acts 5:14 : 14 More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
  • Acts 8:35-38 : 35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus. 36 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?" 37 38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
  • Acts 11:20 : 20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
  • Acts 16:14-15 : 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul. 15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
  • Acts 16:31-34 : 31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household." 32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house. 33 He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household. 34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
  • Acts 18:8 : 8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
  • Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
  • Acts 20:25 : 25 "Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.
  • Acts 28:31 : 31 preaching the Kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.
  • Rom 10:10 : 10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • 1 Cor 11:11 : 11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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  • Acts 8:13-17
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    13Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

    14Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

    15who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

    16for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

    17Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

  • Acts 8:35-40
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    35Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.

    36As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"

    37

    38He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

    39When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn't see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

    40But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

  • Acts 19:3-7
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    3He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

    4Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus."

    5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

    6When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

    7They were about twelve men in all.

  • Acts 8:5-11
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    5Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

    6The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did.

    7For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

    8There was great joy in that city.

    9But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

    10to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is that great power of God."

    11They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

  • Acts 10:47-48
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    47"Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"

    48He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

  • Acts 2:37-38
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    37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"

    38Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

  • Acts 8:25
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    25They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.

  • Acts 5:14
    70%

    14More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

  • Acts 9:42
    69%

    42And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

  • Acts 11:16
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    16I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

  • Acts 17:4
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    4Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

  • Acts 16:32-33
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    32They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

    33He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

  • Mark 1:8
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    8I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

  • Acts 16:15
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    15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.

  • Acts 2:41
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    41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

  • Acts 18:8
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    8Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

  • John 4:39
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    39From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."

  • Acts 4:4
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    4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

  • Acts 1:5
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    5For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

  • Acts 17:12
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    12Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

  • Acts 22:16
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    16Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'

  • Acts 8:27
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    27He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

  • Mark 16:16
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    16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

  • John 3:22
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    22After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

  • Acts 16:13
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    13On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.

  • Acts 8:29-30
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    29The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot."

    30Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

  • Mark 6:12
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    12They went out and preached that people should repent.