World English Bible

Acts 8:18

“Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,”

Verse in context — Acts 8

for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.

But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

The birth and growth of the early church through the power of the Holy Spirit.