Acts 8:16-27

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,