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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Acts 8 - Introduction

* Saul persecutes the church. (1-4) Philip's success at Samaria. Simon the sorcerer baptized. (5-13) The hypocrisy of Simon detected. (14-25) Philip and the Ethiopian. (26-40)

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Combined Bible Commentary

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:2 up; (a-21) The word means 'receiving,' but with the prefix ( _ ana_ ) 'up,' as here, it has the active sense of 'taking up.' It is so translated except in 1 Timothy 3:16 . The more passive recepti...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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