And Philip going down to the city of Samaria, preached Christ unto them.6 And the people with one accord were attentive to those things which were said by Philip, hearing, and seeing the miracles which he did.7 For many of them who had unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, went out.8 And many, taken with the palsy, and that were lame, were healed.
"Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 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." "Hearing and seeing the miracles which he did." Just as in the case of Moses by contrast with the magicians the miracles were evident miracles, so here also. There was magic, and so these signs were manifest. "For unclean spirits came out of many that were possessed with them"; for this was a manifest miracle - not as the magicians did: for the other (Simon), it is likely, bound men with spells - "and many," it says, "that were palsied and lame were healed." There was no deceit here: for it needed but that they should walk and work.
Then calling together the twelve apostles, he gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.3 And he said to them: Take nothing for your journey; neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats.4 And whatsoever house you shall enter into, abide there, and depart not from thence.5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off even the dust of your feet, for a testimony against them.6 And going out, they went about through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
And that through them the whole race of mankind may be sought out, He not only gives them power to drive away evil spirits, but to cure all kind of diseases at His command; as it follows, And to cure diseases.
Wishing then that they should be free from the desire of wealth and the anxieties of life, He gave this injunction. He took it as a proof of their faith and courage, that when it was commanded them to lead a life of extreme poverty, they would not escape from what was ordered. For it was fitting that they should make a kind of bargain, receiving these saving virtues to recompense them for obedience to commands. And when He was making them soldiers of God, He girds them for battle against their enemies, by telling them to embrace poverty. For no soldier of God entangles himself in the affairs of a secular life. (2 Tim. 2:4.)
But when the Lord had girded His disciples as soldiers of God with divine virtue and wise admonitions, sending them to the Jews as teachers and physicians, they afterwards went forth, as it follows, And they departed, and went through the towns preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
About CSB. A personal translation of the New Testament, rendered directly from the public-domain Greek in a literary style — not a scholarly critical edition, and not for liturgical or doctrinal authority. It is one reader's work, offered for enjoyment; where it matters, weigh it against an established translation. (Placeholder text — final wording to come.)