Acts 8:15-39

¹⁵who, coming down, prayed concerning them in order that they might receive the Holy Spirit.

¹⁶For He had not yet fallen upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

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

¹⁸Now when Simon observed that by the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,

¹⁹saying, “Give me this power also, that on whom ever I lay my hands he may receive the Holy Spirit.”

²⁰But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought to acquire the gift of God with money!

²¹You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

²²Repent therefore from this your wickedness, and make petition to God, if perhaps the intent of your heart will be forgiven you.

²³For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and the bond of unrighteousness.”

²⁴Then Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things of which you have spoken may come upon me.”

²⁵Then solemnly bearing witness to and speaking the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

²⁶Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Get up and go toward the south on the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desolate.

²⁷So he got up and went; and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a court official of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship,

²⁸and he was returning. And sitting upon his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

²⁹Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

³⁰And Phillip, running up to it, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

³¹And he said, “How can I, unless someone helps me?” And he urged Philip to come up and sit with him.

³²Now the portion of the Scripture which he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so He opened not His mouth.

³³In His humiliation His justice was taken away, and who will recount His generation? For His life is taken away from the earth.”

³⁴So the eunuch answered Philip and said, “Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this; of himself, or of someone else?”

³⁵And Philip, opening his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached the good news about Jesus to him.

³⁶Now as they were going down the road, they came upon some water. And the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water: what prevents me from being baptized?”

³⁸And he ordered the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, both Phillip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

³⁹Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught up Philip, and the eunuch did not see him any longer; and he went on his way rejoicing.