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saying, "Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit."
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But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!
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You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God.
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Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
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For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity."
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Then Simon answered and said, "Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me."
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So when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
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Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is desert.
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So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship,
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was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet.
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Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go near and overtake this chariot."