Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
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Gill's Exposition
(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them,.... They had received him as a spirit of illumination and sanctification, and as, a spirit of conversion and faith; they had been regenerated, enlightened,…
Barnes' Notes
Were come down - To Samaria. Jerusalem was generally represented as “up,” or “higher” than the rest of the land, Mat 20:18; Joh 7:8. Prayed for them - They sought at the hand of God the extraordinary…
Adam Clarke
When they were come down - The very same mode of speaking, in reference to Jerusalem formerly, obtains now in reference to London. The metropolis in both cases is considered as the centre; and all…
God had wonderfully owned Philip in his work as an evangelist at Samaria, but he could do no more than an evangelist; there were some peculiar powers reserved to the apostles, for the keeping up of…
Cambridge Bible
who, when they were come down, &c. It is clear from the whole history that the special gift of the Holy Ghost, bestowed at this period on the Christian converts in various places, was not given except…
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