(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
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Gill's Exposition
Then laid they their hands on them,.... The Ethiopic version adds, "who had been baptized"; but not upon all of them, men and women, only on some they were directed unto by the Spirit of God; whom he…
Barnes' Notes
He was fallen - This expression is several times applied to the Holy Spirit, Act 10:44; Act 11:15. It does not differ materially from the common expression, “The Holy Spirit descended.” It means that…
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
they were baptized in[into] the name, &c. The preposition, which is the same that is used by Christ (Mat 28:19) at the institution of the Sacrament, implies the tie by which the new converts are in…
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