Acts 8:15-32

¹⁵who, having come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

¹⁶for he was not yet fallen upon any of them, only they were baptised to the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁷Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the Holy Spirit was given, offered them money,

¹⁹saying, Give to me also this power, in order that on whomsoever I may lay hands he may receive the Holy Spirit.

²⁰And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can be obtained by money.

²¹Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not upright before God.

²²Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee;

²³for I see thee to be in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness.

²⁴And Simon answering said, Supplicate ye for me to the Lord, so that nothing may come upon me of the things of which ye have spoken.

²⁵They therefore, having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced the glad tidings to many villages of the Samaritans.

²⁶But the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise up and go southward on the way which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza: the same is desert.

²⁷And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,

²⁸was returning and sitting in his chariot: and he was reading the prophet Esaias.

²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, Approach and join this chariot.

³⁰And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?

³¹And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

³²And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.