Acts 8:18

Weymouth NT

When, however, Simon saw that it was through the laying on of the Apostles' hands that the Spirit was bestowed, he offered them money.

Cross References

Matthew 10:8

Cure the sick, raise the dead to life, cleanse lepers, drive out demons: you have received without payment, give without payment.

Acts 8:17

Then the Apostles placed their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8:19

»Give me too,« he said, »that power, so that every one on whom I place my hands will receive the Holy Spirit.«

1 Timothy 6:5

and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain.