Acts 8:15-39

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

¹⁶For it had not yet fallen upon any of them; but they had only been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

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

¹⁸But Simon, seeing that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, offered them money,

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

²⁰But Peter said to him, Thy money perish with thee! because thou didst think to obtain the gift of God with money.

²¹Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter; for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

²²Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if haply the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.

²³For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

²⁴And Simon answering said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of the things which ye have spoken may come upon me.

²⁵They then, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, were returning to Jerusalem, and publishing the glad tidings in many villages of the Samaritans.

²⁶But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise, and go towards the south, to the way that goeth down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert way.

²⁷And he arose and went; and lo! a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a high officer of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem to worship,

²⁸was returning and sitting in his chariot; and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join thyself to this chariot.

³⁰And Philip ran up, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Well, but dost thou understand what thou art reading?

³¹And he said, How can I, unless some one shall guide me? And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

³²And the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so he openeth not his mouth.

³³In his humiliation judgment was refused him; and who shall describe his generation? for his life is taken away from the earth.”

³⁴And the eunuch answering said, I pray thee, of whom doth the prophet say this? Of himself, or of some other man?

³⁵And Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this scripture declared to him the glad tidings concerning Jesus.

³⁶And as they went along the road, they came to a certain water; and the eunuch saith, See, here is water; what is there to hinder my being baptized?

³⁸And he commanded that the chariot should stop; and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

³⁹But when they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing.