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.
33. In His humiliation justice was denied Him.Who will describe His generation?For His life is taken from the earth.
34. The eunuch replied to Philip, “I ask you, who is the prophet saying this about — himself or another person? ”
35. So Philip proceeded to tell him the good news about Jesus, beginning from that Scripture.
36. As they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look, there’s water! What would keep me from being baptized? ”
37. And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart you may.” And he replied, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
38. Then he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.
39. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer. But he went on his way rejoicing.