ACTS 8:9-29

⁹But there was a certain man, Simon by name, which beforetime in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

¹⁰to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is called Great.

¹¹And they gave heed to him, because that of long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

¹²But when they believed Philip preaching good tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

¹³And Simon also himself believed: and being baptized, he continued with Philip; and beholding signs and great miracles wrought, he was amazed.

¹⁴Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

¹⁵who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:

¹⁶for as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they had been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

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

¹⁸Now when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

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

²⁰But Peter said unto him, Thy silver perish with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money.

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

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

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

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

²⁵They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

²⁶But an angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza: the same is desert.

²⁷And he arose and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem for to worship;

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

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