“who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;”

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.