New English Translation

Acts 8:20-26 New English Translation (NET)

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.)