Acts 8:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

saying, `Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.'

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  • Luke 14:7-9 : 7 And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them, 8 `When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him, 9 and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place. 10 `But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee; 11 because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
  • John 5:44 : 44 how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that `is' from God alone ye seek not?
  • Acts 8:9-9 : 9 And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one, 10 to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, `This one is the great power of God;' 11 and they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with deeds of magic.
  • Acts 8:17 : 17 then were they laying hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 15:8-9 : 8 And last of all -- as to the untimely birth -- he appeared also to me, 9 for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,
  • 3 John 1:9 : 9 I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;
  • Matt 18:1-3 : 1 At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' 2 And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them, 3 and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

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    13 and Simon also himself did believe, and, having been baptized, he was continuing with Philip, beholding also signs and mighty acts being done, he was amazed.

    14 And the apostles in Jerusalem having heard that Samaria hath received the word of God, did send unto them Peter and John,

    15 who having come down did pray concerning them, that they may receive the Holy Spirit, --

    16 for as yet he was fallen upon none of them, and only they have been baptized -- to the name of the Lord Jesus;

    17 then were they laying hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

    18 And Simon, having beheld that through the laying on of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Spirit is given, brought before them money,

  • Acts 8:20
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    20 And Peter said unto him, `Thy silver with thee -- may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money;

  • Acts 8:9-11
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    9 And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,

    10 to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, `This one is the great power of God;'

    11 and they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with deeds of magic.

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    6 and Paul having laid on them `his' hands, the Holy Spirit came upon them, they were speaking also with tongues, and prophesying,

  • Acts 8:23-24
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    23 for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'

    24 And Simon answering, said, `Beseech ye for me unto the Lord, that nothing may come upon me of the things ye have spoken.'

  • Acts 6:6
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    6 whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them `their' hands.

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    8 but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

  • Acts 10:44-47
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    44 While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word,

    45 and those of the circumcision believing were astonished -- as many as came with Peter -- because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit hath been poured out,

    46 for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

    47 Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive -- even as also we?'

  • Mark 3:15-16
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    15 and to have power to heal the sicknesses, and to cast out the demons.

    16 And he put on Simon the name Peter;

  • Acts 2:38
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    38 and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

  • Acts 4:7-8
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    7 and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'

    8 Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

  • Acts 19:2
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    2 he said unto them, `The Holy Spirit did ye receive -- having believed?' and they said unto him, `But we did not even hear whether there is any Holy Spirit;'

  • Acts 15:8
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    8 and the heart-knowing God did bare them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us,

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    30 in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.'

    31 And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

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    33 at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;

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    15 `And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,

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  • Acts 19:11-13
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    11 mighty works also -- not common -- was God working through the hands of Paul,

    12 so that even unto the ailing were brought from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the sicknesses departed from them; the evil spirits also went forth from them.

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    14 and here he hath authority from the chief priests, to bind all those calling on Thy name.'

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    5 and he was giving heed to them, looking to receive something from them;

    6 and Peter said, `Silver and gold I have none, but what I have, that I give to thee; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and be walking.'

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    22 and this having said, he breathed on `them', and saith to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit;

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    1 And having called to him his twelve disciples, he gave to them power over unclean spirits, so as to be casting them out, and to be healing every sickness, and every malady.

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    3 then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent `them' away.

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    8 and the multitudes having seen, wondered, and glorified God, who did give such power to men.

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    6 the multitudes also were giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, with one accord, in their hearing and seeing the signs that he was doing,

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    15 so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay `them' upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even `his' shadow might overshadow some one of them;

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    4 God also bearing joint-witness both with signs and wonders, and manifold powers, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will.

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    17 And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him `his' hands, said, `Saul, brother, the Lord hath sent me -- Jesus who did appear to thee in the way in which thou wast coming -- that thou mayest see again, and mayest be filled with the Holy Spirit.'