Acts 8:19

James Moffatt - New Testament

saying, "Let me share this power too, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the holy Spirit."

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I have written to the church; only, Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead among them, repudiates me.

How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God?

Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the holy Spirit.

Now Simon noticed that the holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands; so he brought them money,

Peter said to him, "Death to you and your money, for dreaming you could buy the gift of God!