19. saying, “Give me this power too, so that anyone I lay hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
20. But Peter told him, “May your silver be destroyed with you, because you thought the gift of God could be obtained with money!
21. You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.
22. Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
23. For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”
24. “Please pray to the Lord for me,” Simon replied, “so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”
25. Then, after they had testified and spoken the message of the Lord, they traveled back to Jerusalem, evangelizing many villages of the Samaritans.
26. An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: “Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is the desert road.)
27. So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch and high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem
28. and was sitting in his chariot on his way home, reading the prophet Isaiah aloud.
29. The Spirit told Philip, “Go and join that chariot.”
30. When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading? ”
31. “How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me? ” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
32. Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,so He does not open His mouth.