may receive
the Holy Ghost. (20)But Peter said unto him, May thy silver with
thyself go into perdition, because thou hast imagined that the gift of
God can be purchased with money. (21)There is for thee neither part nor
lot in this word: for thy heart is not right before God. (22)Repent
therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, if haply this
thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee. (23)For I see that thou art
in the gall of bitterness, and the bond of iniquity. (24)Then Simon
answering said, Pray ye for me unto the Lord, that none of the things
which ye have spoken may come upon me.

(25)Then they, after bearing their testimony, and speaking the word of
the Lord, returned towards Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many
villages of the Samaritans.

(26)Now the angel of the Lord spake to Philip, saying, Arise, and go
towards the south, on the road which leads down from Jerusalem to Gaza:
it is a wilderness. (27)And he arose and went: and lo! an Ethiopian
man, an eunuch, a person in power under Candace queen of the
Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury; he had gone to worship unto
Jerusalem, (28)and was returning, and sitting in his chariot, was
reading the prophet Isaiah. (29)Then said the Spirit to Philip, Go up,
and approach close to that chariot. (30)Then Philip running up to him,
heard him reading the prophet Isaiah; and he said, Well! but dost thou
understand what thou art reading? (31)He replied, How indeed can I,
except some person guide me in the way? And he besought Philip to come
up and sit with him. (32)The portion of scripture which he had been
reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a
lamb before him who sheareth it is dumb, so he opened not his mouth:
(33)in his humiliation his judgment was taken away: but his generation
who can describe? for his life was taken away from the earth[39]."
(34)Then the eunuch addressing himself to Philip, said, I pray thee, of
whom doth the prophet thus speak? of himself, or of some other person?
(35)Then Philip opening his mouth, and beginning from that scripture,
preached to him Jesus. (36)But as they went on the road, they came to
some water: and the eunuch said, Here is water, what forbids my being
baptised? (37)And Philip said, If thou believest with the whole heart,
it is allowable. Then he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God. (38)And he bid the carriage stop: and they went down
both into the water