Acts 8:9
Neutral key: nrf1:ACT.008.009
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Which lectionaries prescribe this verse
Bible text
But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
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Statistics
- 3 Verse-level uses Counting rule CR-BASE: every citation of this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 3 Explicit citations Counting rule CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE, as in the Top 100: only citations that name this verse.
- #8,362 Rank Rank 8,362 of 19,199 verses with explicit citations; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping Position 27,310 in the sequence prot66.nrf, New Testament
3 of the verse-level uses are a lower bound (repetitions not known exactly).
Persons in this verse
Topics of this verse
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Numbering in the versification systems
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse unit has the following labels (mapping release R8); labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations: 3 occurrences
Occurrences
3 approved public occurrences in the profile official@2, newest first.
- Date
- Jan 1, 344 – Dec 31, 407
- Cited as
- Acts 8:9-11
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Homily on Acts
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- John Chrysostom
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 125 – Dec 31, 207
- Cited as
- Acts 8:9
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Against Heresies Book I
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Irenaeus
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- 0195
- Cited as
- Acts 8:9-24
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, The Acts of Peter, III (THE VERCELLI ACTS), IV-XXXII
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed: rule CR-BASE@1 / CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE@1, profile official@2, epoch 100
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – verse-level uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – explicit citations (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 100, published Nov 4, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
prot66.nrf, mapping release R8- Rank
- As in the Top 100: explicit citations, highest first, over the verses with at least one; tied verses share a rank.
- Occurrences
- Approved public occurrences of the profile shown, with at least one passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
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