Acts 8:15
Good News Translation
When they arrived, they prayed for the believers that they might receive the Holy Spirit.

New Revised Standard Version
The two went down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit

Contemporary English Version
When the two apostles arrived, they prayed that these people would be given the Holy Spirit.

New American Bible
who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the holy Spirit,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who, when they were come, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who, when they were come, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost.

prayed.

Acts 2:38 But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Matthew 18:19 Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my Father who is in heaven.

John 14:13,14 Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in the Son. . . .

John 16:23,24 And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you. . . .

Philippians 1:19 For I know that this shall fall out to me unto salvation, through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Context
Simon the Sorcerer
14Now, when the apostles, who were in Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John. 15Who, when they were come, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost. 16For he was not as yet come upon any of them: but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.…
Cross References
Acts 2:38
But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 19:2
And he said to them: Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? But they said to him: We have not so much as heard whether there be a Holy Ghost.

Acts 8:14
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