Kisah Para Rasul 8:17

8:17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, ¹  and they received the Holy Spirit. ² 

Kisah Para Rasul 9:16

9:16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.” ³ 

[8:17]  ¹ tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the Samaritans) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:17]  ² 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.

[9:16]  ³ tn Or “because of my name.” BDAG 1031 s.v. ὑπέρ 2 lists Acts 9:16 as an example of ὑπέρ (Juper) used to indicate “the moving cause or reason, because of, for the sake of, for.”