Acts 8:14

Hearing that Samaria had received God's word, the apostles sent Peter and John. The Jerusalem church confirmed and embraced this new advance of the gospel.

Cross-references · 14

• 1 Th 3:2We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
• 1 Th 2:13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
• Gal 2:9And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.
• Acts 8:1And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
• Acts 2:41Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
• Luke 22:8Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare for us to eat the Passover.”
• Acts 15:4On their arrival in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and apostles and elders, to whom they reported all that God had done through them.
• Acts 11:19–22Meanwhile those scattered by the persecution that began with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message only to Jews.
• Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
• Matt 13:23But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
• Acts 11:1The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
• Acts 3:1–3One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
• John 12:48There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
• 2 Th 2:10and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

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