Deeds (Act) of Apostles 8:2-32

²But good or dread-full men buried Stephen, and made great mourning on him.

³But Saul greatly destroyed the church, and entered by houses, and drew out men and women, and betook them into prison or keeping.

⁴And they that were scattered, passed forth, preaching or evangel-izing the word of God.

⁵And Philip came down into a city of Samaria, and preached to them Christ.

⁶And the people gave attention to these things that were said of Philip, with one will hearing and seeing the signs that he did.

⁷For many of them that had unclean spirits, cried with great voice, and went out. And many sick in the palsy, and crooked, were healed.

⁸Therefore great joy was made in that city.

⁹But there was a man in that city, whose name was Simon, a witch, that had deceived the folk of Samaria, saying, that himself was some great man.

¹⁰To Whom all harkened, from the least to the most, and said, This is the virtue of God, which is called great.

¹¹And they believed him, for long time he had madded them with his witchcrafts, or for this thing, that much time he had made them mad with his witchings.

¹²But when they had believed to Philip, preaching or evangelizing of the kingdom of God, men and women were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

¹³And then also Simon himself believed; and when he was baptized, he drew to Philip; and he saw also that signs and great virtues were done, he was astonied, and wondered.

¹⁴But when the apostles that were at Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John.

¹⁵And when they came, they prayed for them, that they should receive the Holy Ghost;

¹⁶for he came not yet into any of them, but they were baptized only in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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

¹⁸And when Simon had seen, that the Holy Ghost was given by laying on of the hands of the apostles, and he proffered or offered to them money,

¹⁹and said, Give ye also to me this power, that whomever I shall lay on mine hands or that on whomever I shall put on hands, that he receive the Holy Ghost.

²⁰But Peter said to him, Thy money be with thee into perdition, for thou guessedest that the gift of God should be had for money or for thou guessedest the gift of God to be had, or wielded, by money.

²¹There is no part, nor lot to thee, in this word, for thine heart is not rightful before God.

²²Therefore do thou penance for this wickedness of thee, and pray God, if peradventure this thought of thine heart be forgiven to thee.

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

²⁴And Simon answered, and said, Pray ye for me to the Lord, that nothing of these things that ye have said, come on me.

²⁵And they witnessed, and spake the word of the Lord, and went again to Jerusalem, and preached or evangelized to many countries of Samaritans.

²⁶And an angel of the Lord spake to Philip, and said, Rise thou, and go to meet the south, to the way that goeth down from Jerusalem into Gaza; this is desert.

²⁷And he rose, and went forth. And lo! a man of Ethiopia, a mighty man-servant, a gelding of Candace, the queen of Ethiopians, which was on all her riches, came to worship in Jerusalem.

²⁸And he turned again, sitting on his chariot, and reading Isaiah, the prophet.

²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, Nigh thou, and join thee to this chariot.

³⁰And Philip ran to, and heard him reading Isaiah, the prophet. And he said, Guessest thou, whether thou un-derstandest, what things thou readest?

³¹And he said, How may I, if no man show to me? And he prayed Philip, that he should come up, and sit with him.

³²And the place of the scripture that he read, was this, As a sheep he was led to slaying, and as a lamb before a man that sheareth him is dumb without voice, so he opened not his mouth.