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!
21. You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!
22. Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.
23. For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin.”
24. But Simon replied, “You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me.”
25. So after Peter and John had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, proclaiming the good news to many Samaritan villages as they went.
26. Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a desert road.)
27. So he got up and went. There he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship,
28. and was returning home, sitting in his chariot, reading the prophet Isaiah.
29. Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.”
30. So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked him, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”