Acts 8:1-20 WEB

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 8:9-13

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 8:9. Simon.—Not the Cyprian Jew of that name whom, according to Josephus (Ant., XX. vii. 2), Felix afterwards employed to persuade Drusilla to leave for him her husband. King Azizus of Emesa (De Wette, Neander, Hilgenfeld, Alford), but, according to Justin Martyr (Apol., i. 56; Dial., 120), a Samaritan magician out of Gitthon (Zeller, Holtzmann, Zöckler). The people.—Should be, the nation, τὸ ἕθνος, because Simon’s bewitchery was not confined to the city population.Acts... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 8:14-17

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 8:14. Sent.—The mission of the two apostles, Peter and John, is not said to have had as its motive the imparting of the Holy Spirit to the Samaritans (Holtzmann), although this was undoubtedly a consequence which flowed from their mission.Acts 8:15. Prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost.—Not the ordinary converting influences of the Spirit, which they must already have received, since they had believed, but those miraculous endowments which had been... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 8:3

Acts 8:3 (with Acts 20:28 ) Saul and Paul. The change in the heart and life of Paul shows: I. The marvellous power of the grace of God. II. The difference between sanctifying human energies and destroying them. III. The possible greatness of the change which awaits even those who are now in Christ. Parker, City Temple, vol. ii., p. 173. References: Acts 8:5-8 . New Outlines on the New Testament, p. 84.Acts 8:5-13 . E. M. Goulburn, Acts of the Deacons, p. 234. read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 8:8

Acts 8:8 A Christian City. It is manifestly true that an aggregate of individuals may possess, in its own peculiar way, the spiritual character which the individual possesses, and a city, like a man, have and exhibit Christian faith and Christian righteousness and Christian love. I. Look first at faith, then. Perhaps this seems hardest to establish. Look at this city where you live. It is a Christian city, a believing city, and why? How do you know it? It is not because an occasional document... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Acts 8:5-8

DISCOURSE: 1758PHILIP PREACHES CHRIST IN SAMARIAActs 8:5-8. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And there was great joy in that city.NO sooner was the Gospel preached with... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 8:5

city of The Jews having rejected Stephen's witness to, and of, them, the Gospel now begins to go out to "all nations." Cf. Luke 24:47. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 8:1-40

Chapter 8We are introduced now to one of the chief persecutors. A zealous young Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, whose name is Saul. And he was standing by, consenting to the death of Stephen, holding the coats of the fellows who were throwing the stones. No doubt, cheering them on. But I have no doubt, that what Stephen's death and his reaction to it had such a great effect on Paul that he never got away from it. And I believe that it was ultimately the background of Paul's conversion. For... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 8:1-40

Acts 8:1 . At that time there was a great persecution against the church. With regard to this very tremendous storm which suddenly burst on the infant church, Cardinal Baronius, in his Ecclesiastical Annals, gives us an extract from a discourse of Dorotheus, a priest of Antioch, written in the second century, who states that two thousand persons were at this time massacred in Jerusalem, and in Judea; and that their bodies were mangled, and exposed in the fields to be devoured by vultures... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:1-8

Acts 8:1-8And Saul was consenting to his death.Three great figures in the ChurchI. The persecuting Saul. In this part of the narrative the name of Saul occurs three times (Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1; Acts 8:3). How quick the development and how sure! First of all, he watched the clothes of the men who stoned Stephen; then he expressed in every feature of his face satisfaction at the martyr’s death; and then he took up the matter earnestly himself with both hands. He struck the Church as it had never... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:2

Acts 8:2And devout men carried Stephen to his burial. The burial of StephenI. The devout men exemplified--1. The constancy of Christian friendship. They did not need the sound of his voice and the echo of his steps to remind them of the duties they owed to him. The friendships induced by Christianity are the firmest and most enduring. Our friend may be no longer on earth, but he lives with Christ and so is still ours.2. The heroism of Christian friendship. These men were in danger of sharing... read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 8:9-13

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 8:14-17

Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 8:3

Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 8:8

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Acts 8:5-8

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 8:5

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 8:1-40

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 8:1-40

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:1-8

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:2

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