And there was great joy. This joy arose,

1. from the fact that so many people, who were previously sick and afflicted, were rest…

There was great joy in that city.—This and the whole narrative may well have been learned by St. Luke from the lips of Ph…

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 P…

In the highly fluid and syncretistic atmosphere of first-century Palestine a number of parallels of outlook and ideology existed between various no…

The joy of which he speaks is a fruit of faith. For it must be that as soon as we know that God will be favorable and merciful, our minds …

And there was great joy in that city .
] Both on a spiritual account, for the good of their souls, through the preac…

As far as the gospel prevails, evil spirits are dislodged, particularly unclean spirits. All inclinations to the lusts of the flesh, which war agai…