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 2:38Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 1:3To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
• Matt 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• Acts 2:41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
• 1 Pet 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you — not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• Rom 10:10For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
• Acts 28:31preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.
• Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
• Acts 18:8Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
• Acts 16:31–34They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
• Acts 16:14–15A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
• Luke 9:60But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
• Luke 9:2He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.
• Acts 8:35–38Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.
• Acts 20:21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
• Acts 20:25“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.
• Mark 16:15–16He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
• Acts 11:20But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
• 1 Cor 11:11Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
• Acts 5:14More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

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