15. who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the holy Spirit,
16. for it had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
17. Then they laid hands on them and they received the holy Spirit.
18. When Simon saw that the Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money
19. and said, “Give me this power too, so that anyone upon whom I lay my hands may receive the holy Spirit.”
20. But Peter said to him, “May your money perish with you, because you thought that you could buy the gift of God with money.
21. You have no share or lot in this matter, for your heart is not upright before God.
22. Repent of this wickedness of yours and pray to the Lord that, if possible, your intention may be forgiven.
23. For I see that you are filled with bitter gall and are in the bonds of iniquity.”
24. Simon said in reply, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”
25. So when they had testified and proclaimed the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem and preached the good news to many Samaritan villages.
26. Then the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, “Get up and head south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.”
27. So he got up and set out. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, that is, the queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury, who had come to Jerusalem to worship,
28. and was returning home. Seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
29. The Spirit said to Philip, “Go and join up with that chariot.”
30. Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
31. He replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.