Parallel Bible results for "Acts 8:14-17"

Acts 8:14-17

Common English Bible CEB

14 When word reached the apostles in Jerusalem that Samaria had accepted God's word, they commissioned Peter and John to go to Samaria.

15 Peter and John went down to Samaria where they prayed that the new believers would receive the Holy Spirit. (

16 This was because the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen on any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

17 So Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

New Revised Standard NRS

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

15 The two went down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit

16 (for as yet the Spirit had not come upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus).

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