Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
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Gill's Exposition
And they, when they had testified, &c. That is, Simeon (or Peter) and John, as the Syriac version expresses it; when they had bore their testimony to, and by it confirmed the Gospel as preached by…
Barnes' Notes
Pray ye ... - Here remark: (1) That Simon was directed to pray for himself Act 8:22, but he had no disposition to do it, but was willing to ask others to do it for him. Sinners will often ask others…
Adam Clarke
Pray ye to the Lord for me - The words of Peter certainly made a deep impression on Simon's mind; and he must have had a high opinion of the apostle's sanctity and influence with God, when he thus…
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
that none of these[the] things which ye have spoken come upon me Simon shews by the character of his petition that he is not moved by a true spirit of repentance. He utters no word of sorrow for the…
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