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Acts 8:14

Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

KJV

ἀκούσαντες δὲ οἱ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἀπόστολοι ὅτι δέδεκται ἡ Σαμάρια τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπέστειλαν πρὸς αὐτοὺς Πέτρον καὶ Ἰωάννην,

Greek NT

Cum autem audissent Apostoli qui erant Jerosolymis, quod recepisset Samaria verbum Dei, miserunt ad eos Petrum et Joannem.

Vulgate

Now when the apostles that were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

ASV

Now, when the apostles, who were in Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

People PeterJohn
Places Samaria (Region)

In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Πέτρος
petros
noun · 154×
Σαμάρεια
samareia
noun · 11×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δέχομαι
dechomai
verb · 56×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἀποστέλλω
apostello
verb · 131×
ἀπόστολος
apostolos
noun · 79×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
Ἰωάννης
ioannes
noun · 134×
Ἱεροσόλυμα
ierosoluma
noun · 61×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: αὐτοὺς | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτοὺς | RP: + τὸν
  • αὐτοὺςSBLGNT
  • αὐτοὺςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + τὸνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2121Simony is defined as the buying or selling of spiritual things.53 To Simon the magician, who wanted to buy the spiritual power he saw at work in the apostles, St. Peter responded: "Your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's gift with money!"54 Peter thus held to the words of Jesus: "You received without pay, give without pay."55 It is impossible to …

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 2:13 — For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which e
  • 1Thess 2:13 — For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which e
  • 1Thess 3:2 — And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
  • Acts 3:1 — Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
  • Acts 3:16 — And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
  • Acts 8:1 — And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea an
  • Acts 8:1 — And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea an
  • Gal 2:9 — And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen,
  • John 4:38 — I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.