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Acts 8:21-27 English Standard Version (ESV)

21. You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

22. Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

23. For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”

24. And Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”

25. Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

26. Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.

27. And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship