15. They came down and prayed for them to receive the Ruach ha-Kodesh.
16. For He had not yet come upon them; they had only been immersed in the name of the Lord Yeshua.
17. Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Ruach ha-Kodesh.
18. Now when Simon saw that the Ruach ha-Kodesh was given through the laying on of hands by the emissaries, he offered them money,
19. saying, “Give this power to me, too—so that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Ruach ha-Kodesh.”
20. Peter said to him, “May your silver go to ruin, and you with it—because you thought you could buy God’s gift 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, if possible, the intent of your heart may be pardoned.
23. For I see in you the poison of bitterness and the bondage of unrighteousness!”
24. Simon replied, “Pray for me, so that none of what you have said may come upon me.”
25. So when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, proclaiming the Good News to many Samaritan villages.
26. Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Get up, and go south on the road going down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a desert road.)
27. So he got up and went. And behold, an Ethiopian eunuch—an official who was responsible for all the treasure of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians—had traveled to Jerusalem to worship
28. and was now returning. Sitting in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
29. The Ruach said to Philip, “Go, catch up with this chariot.”
30. Philip ran up and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said, “Do you understand what you are 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 passage of Scripture that he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so He opens not His Mouth.
33. In His humiliation justice was denied Him. Who shall recount His generation? For His life is taken away from the earth.”
34. The eunuch replied to Philip, “Please tell me, who is the prophet talking about—himself or someone else?”