Acts 8:20-40 ▼

20 And Peter said to him, Thy silver be unto destruction with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money.

21 There is neither part nor lot to thee in this word: for thy heart is not right before God.

22 Therefore repent of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perchance the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee;

23 for I see thou art in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity.

24 And Simon responding said, You pray to the Lord for me, in order that none of these things of which you have spoken may come upon me.

25 Then indeed, witnessing and speaking the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

26 And the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise, and go towards the south unto the way going down from Jerusalem to Gaza; the same is desert.

27 And rising up, he departed. And, behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, an officer of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury, had been to Jerusalem to worship,

28 and was returning, and sitting upon his chariot he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

29 And the Spirit said to Philip, Go, and join yourself to that chariot.

30 And Philip running forth, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said; Whether do you understand what you are reading?

31 And he said, How could I, unless some one shall guide me? And he called upon Philip coming up, to sit with him;

32 and the place of the scripture which he was reading was this, He was led like a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before the one shearing him is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare His generation? because his life is taken from the earth.

34 And the eunuch responding to Philip, said, I pray thee, concerning whom does the prophet speak this? concerning himself, or some other man?

35 Philip opening his mouth, and beginning from the same scripture, preached Jesus to him.

36 And while they were journeying along the road, they came to a certain water: and the eunuch says, Behold water; what doth hinder me from being baptized?

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38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both came down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more: for he went on his way rejoicing.

40 And Philip was found at Azotus: and going through he preached the gospel to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.