Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
That they might receive (opwv labwsin). Second aorist active subjunctive of lambanw, final clause with opwv. Did they wish the Samaritan Pentecost to prove beyond a doubt that the Samaritans were really converted when they believed? They had been baptized on the assumption that the Holy Spirit had given them new hearts. The coming of the Holy Spirit with obvious signs (cf. Acts 10:44-48) as in Jerusalem would make it plain.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 8:15:
Acts 7:53
Acts 11:27
1 Peter 1:11
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