17. Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
18. And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,
19. saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.
20. But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
21. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
22. Repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God, if perhaps this thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
23. For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the prison of iniquity.
24. Then Simon answered and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
25. And they, when they had testified and preached the word of God, returned to Jerusalem and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
26. And the angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip, saying, Arise and go toward the south unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
27. Then he arose and went, and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship,
28. was returning and sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.
29. Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near and join thyself to this chariot.
30. And Philip ran there to him and heard him read the prophet Isaiah and said, Dost thou understand what thou readest?
31. And he said, How can I, except someone should guide me? And he besought Philip to come up and sit with him.
32. The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth;
33. in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
34. And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom does the prophet speak this? of himself or of some other?