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Acts 8:17

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Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

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  1. Acts 8:15

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

  2. Acts 8:16

    (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

  3. Acts 8:18

    And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

  4. Acts 8:19

    Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

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