18. Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money,
19. saying, “Give to me also this power, so that whomever I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit!”
20. But Peter said to him, “May your silver be destroyed along with you, because you thought you could acquire the gift of God by means of 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 ask the Lord if perhaps the intent of your heart may be forgiven you!”
23. For I see you are in a state of bitter envy and bound by unrighteousness.”
24. But Simon answered and said, “You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said will come upon me.”
25. So when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they turned back toward Jerusalem, and were proclaiming the good news to many villages of the Samaritans.
26. Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Get up and go toward the south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a desert road.)
27. And he got up and went, and behold, there was a man, an Ethiopian eunuch (a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury) who had come to worship in Jerusalem
28. and was returning and sitting in his chariot, and reading aloud the prophet Isaiah.
29. And the Spirit said to Philip, “Approach and join this chariot.”
30. So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, “So then, do you understand what you are reading?”