008:017 Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. 008:018 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, 008:019 saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit." 008:020 But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! 008:021 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn't right before God. 008:022 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. 008:023 For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity." 008:024 Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me." 008:025 They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans. 008:026 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert." 008:027 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship. 008:028 He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah. 008:029 The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot." 008:030 Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?" 008:031 He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with him. 008:032 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn't open his mouth. 008:033 In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth."{Isaiah 53:7,8} 008:034 The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?" 008:035 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus. 008:036 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?" 008:037 {TR adds "Philip said, 'If you believe with all your heart, you may.' He answered, 'I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.'"} 008:038 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.