Acts 8:17-32

¹⁷Then they put their hands on them, and the Holy Spirit came on them.

¹⁸Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the touch of the Apostles' hands, he made them an offering of money, saying,

¹⁹Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.

²⁰But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.

²¹You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.

²²Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

²³For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.

²⁴And Simon, answering, said, Make prayer for me to the Lord, so that these things which you have said may not come on me.

²⁵So they, having given their witness and made clear the word of the Lord, went back to Jerusalem, giving the good news on their way in a number of the small towns of Samaria.

²⁶But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land.

²⁷And he went and there was a man of Ethiopia, a servant of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, and controller of all her property, who had come up to Jerusalem for worship;

²⁸He was going back, seated in his carriage, and was reading the book of the prophet Isaiah.

²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near, and get on his carriage.

³⁰And Philip, running up to him, saw that he was reading Isaiah the prophet, and said to him, Is the sense of what you are reading clear to you?

³¹And he said, How is that possible when I have no guide? And he made Philip get up by his side.

³²Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound: