Pray ye for me (Δεηθητε υμεις υπερ εμου). Emphasis on υμεις (you). First aorist passive imperative. Simon is thoroughly frightened…

Pray ye, etc. Here we remark:

1. That Simon was directed to pray for himself (Acts 8:22), but he had no disposition …

Pray ye to the Lord for me.—There is something eminently characteristic in the sorcerer’s words.

1. His cons…

And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying, Give me also this pow…

Simon’s response to the presence of God’s Spirit and the evidences of God’s power is one of those tragic stories that accompany every advance of th…

Simon answered. From this we gather that he did not take Peter's threat in such a way, but rather considered that his salvation was being …

Then answered Simon, and said
Whose conscience might be touched, and smote with what Peter had said; and he might be…

The Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of these converts with the extraordinary powers conveyed by the Spirit's descent on the day of Pentecos…