Acts 8:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

When

Received

Peter

Acts 3:1

Galatians 2:9

Bible References

When

(Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.

Now the apostles and the brothers in Judaea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

On arriving at Jerusalem they were received by the church, the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported how God had been with them and what he had done.

I sent Timotheus our brother, a minister of God in the gospel of Christ, for your strengthening and encouragement in the faith,

Received

So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.

where the people were more amenable than at Thessalonica; they were perfectly ready to receive the Word and made a daily study of the scriptures to see if it was really as Paul said.

As for him who is sown 'on good soil,' that is the man who hears the word and understands it; he bears fruit, producing now a hundredfold, now sixty, and now thirtyfold."

He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

Peter

Peter and John were on their way up to the temple for the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon,

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.