15. These two went down and prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit.
16. (For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
17. Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, and they received the Holy Spirit.
18. Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money,
19. saying, “Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
20. But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money!