23. For I perceive you to be in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity."
24. Then Simon responded by saying, "Pray for me to the Lord, so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me."
25. And indeed, after testifying and speaking the Word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, and they evangelized the many regions of the Samaritans.
26. Now an Angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Rise up and go toward the south, to the way which descends from Jerusalem into Gaza, where there is a desert."
27. And rising up, he went. And behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, powerful under Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures, had arrived in Jerusalem to worship.
28. And while returning, he was sitting upon his chariot and reading from the prophet Isaiah.
29. Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Draw near and join yourself to this chariot."
30. And Philip, hurrying, heard him reading from the prophet Isaiah, and he said, "Do you think that you understand what you are reading?"
31. And he said, "But how can I, unless someone will have revealed it to me?" And he asked Philip to climb up and sit with him.
32. Now the place in Scripture that he was reading was this: "Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter. And like a lamb silent before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth.