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Acts 8:18

And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

KJV

ἰδὼν δὲ ὁ Σίμων ὅτι διὰ τῆς ἐπιθέσεως τῶν χειρῶν τῶν ἀποστόλων δίδοται τὸ πνεῦμα, προσήνεγκεν αὐτοῖς χρήματα

Greek NT

Cum vidisset autem Simon quia per impositionem manus Apostolorum daretur Spiritus Sanctus, obtulit eis pecuniam,

Vulgate

Now when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,

ASV

And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Σίμων
simon
noun · 75×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
προσφέρω
prosphero
verb · 49×
χείρ
cheir
noun · 175×
χρῆμα
chrema
noun · 6×
ἀπόστολος
apostolos
noun · 79×
ἐπίθεσις
epithesis
noun · 4×
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἰδὼν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἰδὼν | RP: Θεασάμενος
  • ἰδὼνSBLGNT
  • ἰδὼνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ΘεασάμενοςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: πνεῦμα | WH/NIV: πνεῦμα | Treg/RP: + τὸ ἅγιον
  • πνεῦμαSBLGNT
  • πνεῦμαWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + τὸ ἅγιονTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

§699The hand. Jesus heals the sick and blesses little children by laying hands on them.51 In his name the apostles will do the same.52 Even more pointedly, it is by the Apostles' imposition of hands that the Holy Spirit is given.53 The Letter to the Hebrews lists the imposition of hands among the "fundamental elements" of its teaching.54 The Church has kept this sign of the all-pow…
§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

  • 1Tim 5:24 — Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.
  • 1Tim 6:5 — Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
  • 2Kgs 5:15 — And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray t
  • 2Kgs 5:20 — But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after
  • 2Kgs 8:9 — So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent m
  • Acts 8:17 — Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
  • Acts 19:13 — Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
  • Ezek 13:19 — And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my peop
  • Isa 33:15 — He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shuttet
  • John 6:26 — Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
  • Luke 12:13 — And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
  • Matt 10:8 — Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
  • Matt 10:8 — Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
  • Matt 13:22 — He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
  • Matt 13:47 — Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
  • Mic 3:11 — The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil ca