22. Therefore repent of your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the intention of your heart may be forgiven you.
23. For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”
24. Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me that nothing you have spoken may come upon me.”
25. When they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
26. Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise up and go toward the south on the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert.
27. So he rose up and went. And there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in command of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship.
28. He was returning, sitting in his chariot and reading the book of Isaiah the prophet.
29. The Spirit said to Philip, “Go to this chariot and stay with it.”
30. Then Philip ran to him, and heard him read the book of Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
31. He said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
32. The passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to slaughter;and as a lamb before its shearer is silent,so He opened not His mouth.
33. In His humiliation justice was denied Him;who will speak of His generation?For His life is taken from the earth.”
34. The eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet speak, of himself or of someone else?”
35. Then Philip spoke, beginning with the same Scripture, and preached Jesus to him.
36. As they went on their way, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?”
37. Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” He answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
38. And he commanded the chariot to halt. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.