008:019 "Give me too," he said, "that power, so that every one on whom
I place my hands will receive the Holy Spirit."
008:020 "Perish your money and yourself," replied Peter, "because you
have imagined that you can obtain God's free gift with money!
008:021 No part or lot have you in this matter, for your heart is not
right in God's sight.
008:022 Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray
to the Lord, in the hope that the purpose which is in your
heart may perhaps be forgiven you.
008:023 For I perceive that you have fallen into the bitterest
bondage of unrighteousness."
008:024 "Pray, both of you, to the Lord for me," answered Simon,
"that nothing of what you have said may come upon me."
008:025 So the Apostles, after giving a solemn charge and delivering
the Lord's Message, travelled back to Jerusalem, making known
the Good News also in many of the Samaritan villages.
008:026 And an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Rise and proceed
south to the road that runs down from Jerusalem to Gaza,
crossing the Desert."
008:027 Upon this he rose and went. Now, as it happened, an Ethiopian
eunuch who was in a position of high authority with Candace,
queen of the Ethiopians, as her treasurer, had visited
Jerusalem to worship there,
008:028 and was now on his way home; and as he sat in his chariot
he was reading the Prophet Isaiah.
008:029 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go and enter that chariot."
008:030 So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah.
"Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked.
008:031 "Why, how can I," replied the eunuch, "unless some one explains
it to me?" And he earnestly invited Philip to come up