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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 8:5-8

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 8:5. Philip.—Not the apostle, but the deacon (Acts 6:4). The city of Samaria—according to the best MSS.—signifies that the capital built by Omri (1 Kings 16:24), and renamed Sebaste by Herod the Great (Jos., Ant., XX. Acts 6:2), was the place to which Philip went; if with some MSS. the article before city be omitted, then Samaria would mean the province of that name, and the city might be Sychar, the Sichem of the Old Testament (John 4:5).Acts 8:6. The people.—Better, the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Acts 8:5-8

DISCOURSE: 1758PHILIP PREACHES CHRIST IN SAMARIAActs 8:5-8. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And there was great joy in that city.NO sooner was the Gospel preached with... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 8:1-40

Chapter 8We are introduced now to one of the chief persecutors. A zealous young Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, whose name is Saul. And he was standing by, consenting to the death of Stephen, holding the coats of the fellows who were throwing the stones. No doubt, cheering them on. But I have no doubt, that what Stephen's death and his reaction to it had such a great effect on Paul that he never got away from it. And I believe that it was ultimately the background of Paul's conversion. For... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 8:1-40

Acts 8:1 . At that time there was a great persecution against the church. With regard to this very tremendous storm which suddenly burst on the infant church, Cardinal Baronius, in his Ecclesiastical Annals, gives us an extract from a discourse of Dorotheus, a priest of Antioch, written in the second century, who states that two thousand persons were at this time massacred in Jerusalem, and in Judea; and that their bodies were mangled, and exposed in the fields to be devoured by vultures... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:1-8

Acts 8:1-8And Saul was consenting to his death.Three great figures in the ChurchI. The persecuting Saul. In this part of the narrative the name of Saul occurs three times (Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1; Acts 8:3). How quick the development and how sure! First of all, he watched the clothes of the men who stoned Stephen; then he expressed in every feature of his face satisfaction at the martyr’s death; and then he took up the matter earnestly himself with both hands. He struck the Church as it had never... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:5-8

Acts 8:5-8Then Philip wont down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them.Philip at SamariaI. The preacher--“Philip.”1. His native place--“Caesarea,” most likely.2. His official status--“Evangelist,” and one of the first deacons.3. His new charge--“Samaria.”4. His specific work “Preached.”5. His theme--“Christ.”6. His directness--“Unto them.”He took aim at his audience. He did not take long range at antediluvian iniquity, but poured hot shot and shell into the living iniquities of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 8:6

6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. Ver. 6. And the people, &c. ] A corrupt place, and bewitched by the sorceries of Simon Magus; yet even there God had a people. Justin Martyr was of this city. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Acts 8:6

with one: Acts 13:44, 2 Chronicles 30:12, Matthew 20:15, Matthew 20:16, John 4:41, John 4:42 Reciprocal: Acts 2:41 - gladly Acts 6:8 - did read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:5-40

PART SECOND. THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION FROM JEWS TO GENTILES, Acts 8:5 to Acts 12:25. Through this Second Part of his history Luke traces in perfectly regular progress the successive steps by which Christianity emerges from her Jewish trammels into a free and universal Church. The Samaritans are first evangelized, and the eunuch is the first apostle to Africa. The Gentile apostle is next converted and put in preparation for his work. Peter, emerging from Jerusalem, is taught by the case of... read more