16 (For he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized[a] in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then they placed their[b] hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.

18 Now Simon, when he[c] saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 8:16 Literally “but they were only having been baptized”
  2. Acts 8:17 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. Acts 8:18 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal