Acts 8:18
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money.
In context
16 For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
17 Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money.
19 “Give me this power as well,” he said, “so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
20 But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
Acts 8:18 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money.
- KJV King James Version
- And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
- WEB World English Bible
- Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
- ASV American Standard Version
- Now when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Simon, having beheld that through the laying on of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Spirit is given, brought before them money,
- DBY Darby Translation
- But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the [Holy] Spirit was given, offered them money,
- WBS Webster Bible
- And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,