008:012 But when Philip began to tell the Good News about the Kingdom of God and about the Name of Jesus Christ, and they embraced the faith, they were baptized, men and women alike. 008:013 Simon himself also believed, and after being baptized remained in close attendance on Philip, and was full of amazement at seeing such signs and such great miracles performed. 008:014 When the Apostles in Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had accepted God's Message, they sent Peter and John to visit them. 008:015 They, when they came down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit: 008:016 for He had not as yet fallen upon any of them. They had only been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. 008:017 Then the Apostles placed their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Spirit. 008:018 When, however, Simon saw that it was through the laying on of the Apostles' hands that the Spirit was bestowed, he offered them money. 008:019 "Give me too," he said, "that power, so that every one on whom I place my hands will receive the Holy Spirit." 008:020 "Perish your money and yourself," replied Peter, "because you have imagined that you can obtain God's free gift with money! 008:021 No part or lot have you in this matter, for your heart is not right in God's sight. 008:022 Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord, in the hope that the purpose which is in your heart may perhaps be forgiven you. 008:023 For I perceive that you have fallen into the bitterest bondage of unrighteousness." 008:024 "Pray, both of you, to the Lord for me," answered Simon, "that nothing of what you have said may come upon me." 008:025 So the Apostles, after giving a solemn charge and delivering the Lord's Message, travelled back to Jerusalem, making known the Good News also in many of the Samaritan villages. 008:026 And an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Rise and proceed south to the road that runs down from Jerusalem to Gaza, crossing the Desert." 008:027 Upon this he rose and went. Now, as it happened, an Ethiopian eunuch who was in a position of high authority with Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, as her treasurer, had visited Jerusalem to worship there, 008:028 and was now on his way home; and as he sat in his chariot he was reading the Prophet Isaiah. 008:029 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go and enter that chariot." 008:030 So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked. 008:031 "Why, how can I," replied the eunuch, "unless some one explains it to me?" And he earnestly invited Philip to come up and sit with him.