“Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Acts 8 contains 40 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.