Acts 8:7

7 For, with a loud cry, foul spirits came out of many possessed by them, and many paralytics and lame persons were restored to health.

Acts 8:7 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 8:7

For unclean spirits
Devils, so called because they were unclean themselves, defiled others, add delighted in impure persons and places; (See Gill on Matthew 10:1)

crying with loud voice;
showing their unwillingness to remove, and the irresistibleness of divine power they could not withstand:

came out of many that were possessed
with them; who had for a long time dwelt in them, and had greatly afflicted them:

and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed;
by Philip, in the name of Christ, through a word speaking, or by touching them, without making use of any means or medicines.

Acts 8:7 In-Context

5 while Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed Christ there.

6 Crowds of people, with one accord, gave attention to what they heard from him, listening, and witnessing the signs which he did.

7 For, with a loud cry, foul spirits came out of many possessed by them, and many paralytics and lame persons were restored to health.

8 And there was great joy in that city.

9 Now for some time past there had been a man named Simon living there, who had been practising magic and astonishing the Samaritans, pretending that he was more than human.