So there was much joy in that city.
8. The joy whereof he speaketh is a fruit of faith. For it cannot be but that so soon as we know that God will be favorable and merciful our minds shall be wrapt with incomparable joy, and such as doth far pass all understanding, (Philippians 4:7.)
Here is Samson's riddle solved: out of the strong comes sweetness. The very persecution meant to destroy the church became the means of spreading it. Those who scattered did not slink away to hide but went everywhere preaching, turning their dispersal into evangelism.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 8:4-13
And there was great joy in that city. Both on a spiritual account, for the good of their souls, through the preaching of Christ and his Gospel to them; and on a temporal account; for the good of their bodies, or their friends, being dispossessed of devils, and healed of their diseases. And there was great joy in that city.