Acts 8:12

When they believed Philip's preaching of God's kingdom and Jesus' name, men and women were baptized. Genuine faith in Christ replaced their fascination with Simon.

Cross-references · 20

• Acts 2:38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• Acts 1:3To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
• Matt 28:19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
• Acts 2:41Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
• 1 Pet 3:21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
• Rom 10:10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
• Acts 28:31Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
• Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
• Acts 18:8And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
• Acts 16:31–34And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
• Acts 16:14–15And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
• Luke 9:60Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
• Luke 9:2And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
• Acts 8:35–38Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
• Acts 20:21Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Acts 20:25And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
• Mark 16:15–16And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
• Acts 11:20And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the LORD Jesus.
• 1 Cor 11:11Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
• Acts 5:14And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

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