Handelingen 8:15

15 Dewelken, afgekomen zijnde, baden voor hen, dat zij den Heiligen Geest ontvangen mochten.

Handelingen 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.

Handelingen 8:15 In-Context

13 En Simon geloofde ook zelf, en gedoopt zijnde, bleef gedurig bij Filippus; en ziende de tekenen en grote krachten, die er geschiedden, ontzette hij zich.

14 Als nu de apostelen, die te Jeruzalem waren, hoorden, dat Samaria het Woord Gods aangenomen had, zonden zij tot hen Petrus en Johannes;

15 Dewelken, afgekomen zijnde, baden voor hen, dat zij den Heiligen Geest ontvangen mochten.

16 (Want Hij was nog op niemand van hen gevallen, maar zij waren alleenlijk gedoopt in den Naam van den Heere Jezus.)

17 Toen legden zij de handen op hen, en zij ontvingen den Heiligen Geest.