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1 And Saul was con­sent­ing unto his death. And at that time there was a great per­se­cu­tion against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scat­tered abroad through­out the re­gions of Ju­daea and Samaria, ex­cept the apos­tles. 2 And de­vout men car­ried Stephen ­to his burial, and made great lamen­ta­tion over him. 3 As for Saul, he made hav­ock of the church, en­ter­ing into ev­ery house, and hal­ing men and wom­en com­mit­ted them to prison. 4 There­fore they that were scat­tered abroad went ev­ery where preach­ing the word. 5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. 6 And the peo­ple with one ac­cord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hear­ing and see­ing the mir­a­cles which he did. 7 For un­clean spir­its, cry­ing with loud voice, came out of many that were pos­sessed with them: and many tak­en with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city. 9 But there was a cer­tain man, called Si­mon, which be­fore­time in the same city used sor­cery, and be­witched the peo­ple of Samaria, giv­ing out that him­self was some great one: 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the great­est, say­ing, This man is the great pow­er of God. 11 And to him they had re­gard, be­cause that of long time he had be­witched them with sor­ceries. 12 But when they be­lieved Philip preach­ing the things con­cern­ing the king­dom of God, and the name of Je­sus Christ, they were bap­tized, both men and wom­en. 13 Then Si­mon him­self be­lieved al­so: and when he was bap­tized, he con­tin­ued with Philip, and won­dered, be­hold­ing the mir­a­cles and signs which were done. 14 Now when the apos­tles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had re­ceived the word of God, they sent unto them Pe­ter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might re­ceive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fall­en upon none of them: only they were bap­tized in the name of the Lord Je­sus.) 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they re­ceived the Holy Ghost. 18 And when Si­mon saw that through lay­ing on of the apos­tles' hands the Holy Ghost was giv­en, he of­fered them mon­ey, 19 Say­ing, Give me also this pow­er, that on whom­so­ev­er I lay hands, he may re­ceive the Holy Ghost. 20 But Pe­ter said unto him, Thy mon­ey per­ish with thee, be­cause thou hast thought that the gift of God may be pur­chased with mon­ey. 21 Thou hast nei­ther part nor lot in this mat­ter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 Re­pent there­fore of this thy wicked­ness, and pray God, if per­haps the thought of thine heart may be for­giv­en thee. 23 For I per­ceive that thou art in the gall of bit­ter­ness, and in the bond of in­iq­ui­ty. 24 Then an­swered Si­mon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spo­ken come upon me. 25 And they, when they had tes­ti­fied and preached the word of the Lord, re­turned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many vil­lages of the Samar­i­tans. 26 And the an­gel of the Lord spake unto Philip, say­ing, Arise, and go to­ward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. 27 And he arose and went: and, be­hold, a man of Ethiopia, an eu­nuch of great au­thor­i­ty un­der Can­dace queen of the Ethiopi­ans, who had the charge of all her trea­sure, and had come to Jerusalem for to wor­ship, 28 Was re­turn­ing, and sit­ting in his char­i­ot read Esa­ias the prophet. 29 Then the Spir­it said unto Philip, Go near, and join thy­self to this char­i­ot. 30 And Philip ran thith­er to him, and heard him read the prophet Esa­ias, and said, Un­der­stand­est thou what thou read­est? 31 And he said, How can I, ex­cept some man should guide me? And he de­sired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. 32 The place of the scrip­ture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaugh­ter; and like a lamb dumb be­fore his shear­er, so opened he not his mouth: 33 In his hu­mil­i­a­tion his judg­ment was tak­en away: and who shall de­clare his gen­er­a­tion? for his life is tak­en from the earth. 34 And the eu­nuch an­swered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of him­self, or of some oth­er man? 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and be­gan at the same scrip­ture, and preached unto him Je­sus. 36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a cer­tain wa­ter: and the eu­nuch said, See, here is wa­ter; what doth hin­der me to be bap­tized? 37 And Philip said, If thou be­lievest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he an­swered and said, I be­lieve that Je­sus Christ is the Son of God. 38 And he com­mand­ed the char­i­ot to stand still: and they went down both into the wa­ter, both Philip and the eu­nuch; and he bap­tized him. 39 And when they were come up out of the wa­ter, the Spir­it of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eu­nuch saw him no more: and he went on his way re­joic­ing. 40 But Philip was found at Azo­tus: and pass­ing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cae­sarea.