Acts 8:17

8:17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans,37 and they received the Holy Spirit.38

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37	tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the Samaritans) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
38	sn They received the Holy Spirit. It is likely this special distribution of the Spirit took place because a key ethnic boundary was being crossed. Here are some of “those far off” of Acts 2:38–40.