Acts 8:7

7 for unclean spirits came forth from many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice, and many who have been paralytic and lame were healed,

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 And Philip having gone down to a city of Samaria, was preaching to them the Christ,

6 the multitudes also were giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, with one accord, in their hearing and seeing the signs that he was doing,

7 for unclean spirits came forth from many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice, and many who have been paralytic and lame were healed,

8 and there was great joy in that city.

9 And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,