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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."
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So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
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And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.
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The place in the Scripture which he read was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before its shearer is silent, So He opened not His mouth.
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In His humiliation His justice was taken away, And who will declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth."
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So the eunuch answered Philip and said, "I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?"
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Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.
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Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?"
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Then Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."
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So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.
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Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.