Acts 8:8

8 And there was great joy in that city.

Acts 8:8 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 8:8

And there was great joy in that city.
] Both on a spiritual account, for the good of their souls, through the preaching of Christ and his Gospel to them; and on a temporal account; for the good of their bodies, or their friends, being dispossessed of devils, and healed of their diseases.

Acts 8:8 In-Context

6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the signs which he did.

7 For many unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of those who were possessed with them, and many paralytics and that were lame were healed.

8 And there was great joy in that city.

9 But there was a certain man called Simon, who before this in the same city used magic arts and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that he himself was some great one,

10 to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This is the great virtue of God.