Acts 8:16-17

8:16 (For the Spirit 1  had not yet come upon 2  any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 3  8:17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, 4  and they received the Holy Spirit. 5 

1 tn Grk “For he”; the referent (the Spirit) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

2 tn Or “fallen on.”

3 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

4 tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the Samaritans) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 sn They received the Holy Spirit. It is likely this special distribution of the Spirit took place because a key ethnic boundary was being crossed. Here are some of “those far off” of Acts 2:38-40.