20. But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
21. You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.
22. Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, if possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you.
23. For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."
24. But Simon answered and said, "Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me."
25. So, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.
26. But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, "Get up and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This is a desert road.)
27. So he got up and went; and there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and he had come to Jerusalem to worship,