Gevurot 8:15

15 Who, having come down, davened for them that they might receive the Ruach Hakodesh.

Gevurot 8:15 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 8:15

Who when they were come down
To the city of Samaria, where Philip was, and these converts dwelt:

prayed for them;
for some of them, unto God:

that they might receive the Holy Ghost;
the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost, as to be able to speak with tongues, to prophesy and work miracles: they might pray for them all, that they might have a larger measure of grace, and more spiritual light and knowledge; and that they might be established in the doctrines of the Gospel, and hold fast the profession of their faith unto the end; but it can hardly be thought that they should pray for them all, both men and women, that they might have the above extraordinary gifts, which were not necessary to them all: and that these are meant by the Holy Ghost is clear from what follows, since he was not yet fallen on any of them, which cannot be understood in any other sense; and seeing it was something visible, which Simon could discern, and therefore cannot mean internal grace, and an increase of that.

Gevurot 8:15 In-Context

13 And Shimon himself also had emunah, and, having submitted to Moshiach’s tevilah of teshuva, was following Philippos, and, seeing otot and nifla’ot and moftim hagedolim taking place, he was constantly mishpoyel (standing in awe).

14 And when Moshiach’s Shlichim heard in Yerushalayim that Shomron has accepted the dvar Hashem, they sent Kefa and Yochanan to them,

15 Who, having come down, davened for them that they might receive the Ruach Hakodesh.

16 For the Ruach Hakodesh had not yet fallen upon any one of them, but only they had received a tevilah of teshuva in a mikveh mayim b’Shem Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu.

17 Then Kefa and Yochanan were laying their hands upon them, and they were receiving the Ruach Hakodesh.