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Acts 8:6

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The crowds gave their undivided attention to Philip’s message and to the signs they saw him perform.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the multitudes gave heed with one accord unto the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard, and saw the signs which he did.

KJV

And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.

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Commentary

9 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Acts · Written before 735.

But the crowds paid attention to what was being said by Philip. From this chapter and from the story of the Samaritan woman, it is proven that this nation was prompt in spirit to believe.

This site's exposition

Philip went down to a city

on Acts 8:5-8

Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them, crossing the divide between Jews and Samaritans that John 4:9 records. The crowds gave their undivided attention to his message and to the signs they saw him perform.

This site's exposition

gave their undivided attention

Clarke notes that Philip held their attention by the weight of his message and by his miracles together. Chrysostom compares these plain signs with those of Moses set against the magicians of Egypt. Bede finds the Samaritans quick to believe, recalling the Samaritan woman.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

John Chrysostom

Homily on Acts 18 · Written before 407.

proposed

"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." "Hearing and seeing the miracles which he did." Just as in the case of Moses by contrast with the magicians the miracles were evident miracles, so here also. There was magic, and so these signs were manifest. "For unclean spirits came out of many that were possessed with them"; for this was a manifest miracle - not as the magicians did: for the other (Simon), it is likely, bound men with spells - "and many," it says, "that were palsied and lame were healed." There was no deceit here: for it needed but that they should walk and work.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And the nature of the miracles was such as suited the intention of his commission, and gave light and lustre to it. [1.] He was sent to break the power of Satan; and, in token of this, unclean spirits, being charged in the name of the Lord Jesus to remove, came out of many that were possessed with them,
And the people with one accord,.... The inhabitants of the city of Samaria, as one man, came to hear the word: and gave heed to those things which Philip spake; they listened to them, took notice of them, gave their ascent to them, believed and embraced them; being induced thereunto, not only upon the evidence by which these things came, but by reason of the miracles which he wrought, for the confirmation of them: for it follows, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did; and which are particularly mentioned in the next verse.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The common people gave heed to Philip, oi ochloi -- a multitude of them, not here and there one, but with one accord; they were all of a mind, that it was fit the doctrine of the gospel should be enquired into, and an impartial hearing given to it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The people with one accord gave heed - He had fixed their attention, not only with the gravity and importance of the matter of his preaching, but also by the miracles which he did.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

With one accord - Unitedly, or with one mined. Great multitudes of them did it. Gave heed - Paid attention to; embraced. Hearing - Hearing what he said.

The words behind it

20 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 30:12

    Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 110:3

      Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 32:39

      I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

    • Philippians 2:13

      For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

    • Jeremiah 24:7

      I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their…

    • 2 Thessalonians 2:13–14

      But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by…

  • Through

    Acts 13:44

    On the following Sabbath, nearly the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 60:8

      Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?

    • Isaiah 11:10

      On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.

    • Genesis 49:10

      The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

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About Acts

The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Acts; John Chrysostom, Homily on Acts 18; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); John Lightfoot, Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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