Acts 8:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁷ Evil spirits came out, with loud shrieks, from many persons and large numbers of people were healed of their paralysis and crippled conditions.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For foul spirits came out of many who were possessed by them, screaming and shouting with a loud voice, and many who were suffering from palsy or were crippled were restored to health.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ For from many of those that had unclean spirits, they came out, crying with a loud voice: and many that were palsied, and that were lame, were healed.

Common English Bible

⁷ With loud shrieks, unclean spirits came out of many people, and many who were paralyzed or crippled were healed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For many of them had unclean spirits, and, crying out with a loud voice, these departed from them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ For many of them who had unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, went out.

Acts 8:7 Cross References

Matthew 10:1

Jesus then called His twelve apostles [see next verse] to Him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal all kinds of diseases and illnesses.

Matthew 11:5

[how] blind people are receiving back their sight, and crippled people are walking [again], and people with infectious skin diseases are being healed, and deaf-mutes are hearing [and speaking (?) again], and people are being raised [from the dead], and poor people are having the good news preached to them.

Matthew 4:24

The news [of what Jesus was doing] spread all over [the country of] Syria and they brought to Him all those who were sick, stricken with various diseases and pains, dominated by evil spirits, and afflicted with seizures and paralysis, and He healed them [all].

Mark 9:26

The spirit shrieked and caused violent convulsions [in the boy], then came out of him. The boy appeared to be dead, so that most of the people were saying, “He is dead.”

Luke 10:17

So, the seventy-two disciples returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the evil spirits submitted to us in your name [i.e., by your authority].”

John 14:12

Truly, truly, I tell you, the person who believes in me will perform the deeds that I do also; and he will perform even greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father. [Note: The “greater deeds” are probably evangelizing the world].

Acts 5:16

Large crowds also came from the towns surrounding Jerusalem, bringing people who were sick and those troubled by evil spirits, and all of them were [miraculously] healed.

Acts 8:6

Great crowds of people joined together in accepting Philip’s message when they heard and saw the [miraculous] signs he was able to perform.

Hebrews 2:4

God also testified, along with those people, by [giving them] both signs and wonders and various miracles, and by [supernatural] gifts distributed [to them] by the Holy Spirit, as He desired.