Scattered by persecution, Philip proclaimed Christ in Samaria. Crowds believed and were baptized, and when Peter and John came from Jerusalem and laid hands on them, the Samaritans received the Holy Spirit.
The peoples at Pentecost (Acts 2:9–11) and the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem in Acts.
The gospel was now crossing the old bitterness between Jews and Samaritans, just as Jesus had said: Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). A magician named Simon tried to buy the power to give the Spirit, and Peter rebuked him sharply.
