Acts 8:5

Acts 8:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
• New International Version (NIV)Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them.

Context of Acts 8:5

3But Saul brought great trouble to the believers. He wanted to destroy their whole group. So he went to all their houses. He took hold of the believers and he put them into prison. He did that to both men and women. 4The believers who had left Jerusalem went to many different towns. In each place, they told the people the message about Jesus. One of them who was called Philip went to a city in Samaria. There he told the people the message about Jesus Christ, God's Messiah. 6Crowds of people came together to hear Philip speak. They saw him do many miracles which showed that God was with him. So they listened carefully to his message. 7Many people there had bad spirits, which were living in them. Philip sent the bad spirits out of those people. As the spirits came out, they shouted loudly. Some other people had weak arms or legs, and some people could not walk well. Philip caused many of them to become well again.

Acts 8:5 word by word

Φίλιππος δὲ κατελθὼν εἰς τὴν πόλιν τῆς Σαμαρείας ἐκήρυσσεν αὐτοῖς τὸν Χριστόν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thenδέde · thenG1161
• PhilipΦίλιπποςPhilippos · PhilipG5376
• went downκατέρχομαιkaterchomai · to descendG2718
• toεἰςeis · towardG1519
• the cityπόλιςpolis · cityG4172
• of Samariaὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• of SamariaΣαμάρειαSamareia · SamariaG4540
• and preachedκηρύσσωkērussō · to preachG2784
• ChristΧριστόςChristos · ChristG5547
• unto themαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846

Cross-references for Acts 8:5

• Acts 8:1Saul was standing there while the Jewish leaders killed Stephen. He agreed with what they did. On the same day that Stephen died, the group of believers who lived in Jerusalem began to have great trouble. People did bad things to them. All the believers left Jerusalem and went to other places in Judea and Samaria. Only Jesus' 12 apostles stayed in Jerusalem.
• Acts 6:5The whole group of believers was happy with the apostles' words. So first they chose a man called Stephen. Stephen believed strongly in God and he was full of the Holy Spirit. The believers also chose six other men: Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas. Nicolas was from Antioch. He was not born as a Jew, but he had joined the Jews later.
• Acts 21:8The next day, we left Ptolemais and we sailed to Caesarea. We stayed there with Philip. He was someone who taught people the good news about Jesus. He was one of the seven men that the believers had chosen in Jerusalem.
• Acts 1:8But the Holy Spirit will come to you, and he will give you power. The Holy Spirit will make your spirit strong. Then you will tell other people everywhere in the world about me. You will do that in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria and in places far away.’
• Matthew 10:5Jesus sent out these 12 disciples. Before they left, he said to them, ‘Do not go to any place where the people are Gentiles. And do not go to towns where only Samaritans live.
• Acts 8:35Then Philip explained to the man the words that Isaiah had written. Then he went on to tell him the good news about Jesus.
• Acts 5:42Every day the apostles continued to teach people about Jesus. They spoke in people's homes and in the yard of the temple. All the time, they told people the good news that Jesus is God's Messiah.
• Acts 9:20He immediately went to the Jewish meeting places and he taught people about Jesus. He told them that Jesus is the Son of God.
• Acts 17:2Paul went to the meeting place, as he usually did on a Jewish day of rest. On three rest days, he spoke God's message to the people there. He read from the Bible and he explained what it meant.
• John 4:25The woman said to Jesus, ‘I know that the Messiah will come. He is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.’
• 1 Corinthians 1:23But as for us, we tell people about how Christ died on a cross. That is a message that Jewish people refuse to accept as true. Gentile people think that it is a silly message.
• 1 Corinthians 2:2While I was with you, I decided to teach you only about Jesus Christ. I taught you about his death on a cross. I wanted to forget everything else.
• 1 Corinthians 3:11God has already put Jesus Christ as the only foundation of this building. So nobody can put any other foundation there.

Commentaries on Acts 8:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Then Philip - One of the seven deacons, Acts 6:5, called afterwards, Philip the Evangelist, Acts 21:8. The city of Samaria - At this time there was no city of Samaria existing: according to Josephus, Ant. lib. xiii. cap. 10, sect. 3, Hyrcanus had so utterly demolished it as to leave no vestige of it remaining. Herod the Great did afterwards build a city on the same spot of ground; but he called it Ϛ i.e. Augusta, in compliment to the Emperor Augustus, as…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Then Philip - One of the seven deacons, Acts 6:5. He is afterward called the “evangelist,” Acts 21:8. The city of Samaria - This does not mean a city whose “name” was Samaria, for no such city at that time existed. Samaria was a “region,” Matthew 2:22. The ancient city Samaria, the capital of that region, had been destroyed by Hyrcanus, so completely as to leave no vestige of it remaining; and he “took away,” says Josephus, “the very marks that there had…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-13Verses 5-13 As far as the gospel prevails, evil spirits are dislodged, particularly unclean spirits. All inclinations to the lusts of the flesh which war against the soul are such. Distempers are here named, the most difficult to be cured by the course of nature, and most expressive of the disease of sin. Pride, ambition, and desire after grandeur have always caused abundance of mischief, both to the world and to the church. The people said of Simon, This…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-255. Then Philip--not the apostle of that name, as was by some of the Fathers supposed; for besides that the apostles remained at Jerusalem, they would in that case have had no occasion to send a deputation of their own number to lay their hands on the baptized disciples [Grotius]. It was the deacon of that name, who comes next after Stephen in the catalogue of the seven, probably as being the next most prominent. The persecution may have been directed…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Acts 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings