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Selected Verse: Acts 8:7 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 8:7 |
King James |
For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For unclean spirits - See the notes on Mat 4:24.
Crying with loud voice - See the notes on Mar 1:26.
Palsies - See the notes on Mat 4:24. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Taken with palsies (παραλελυμένοι)
Rev., more neatly, palsied. See on Luk 5:18.
Were healed
See on Luk 5:15. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed - Hence it is evident that these unclean spirits were not a species of diseases; as they are here distinguished from the paralytic and the lame. There is nothing more certain than that the New Testament writers mean real diabolic possessions by the terms unclean spirits, devils, etc., which they use. It is absolute trifling to deny it. If we, in our superior sagacity can show that they were mistaken, that is quite a different matter! |
24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.