18. And Shim‛on, seeing that through the laying on of the hands of the emissaries the Set-apart Spirit was given, he offered them money,
19. saying, “Give me this authority too, so that anyone I lay hands on shall receive the Set-apart Spirit.”
20. But Kĕpha said to him, “Let your silver perish with you, because you thought to buy the gift of Elohim through money!
21. “You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before Elohim.
22. “Repent therefore of this evil of yours, and plead with Elohim to forgive you the intention of your heart.
23. “For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by unrighteousness.”
24. But Shim‛on answering, said, “Plead with the Master for me, so that none of what you had said shall come upon me.”
25. Then after they had earnestly witnessed and spoken the Word of יהוה, they returned to Yerushalayim, bringing the Good News in many villages of the Shomeronites.
26. But a messenger of יהוה spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the way which goes down from Yerushalayim to Azzah.” This is desert.
27. And he arose and went, and saw, a man of Kush, a eunuch of great authority under Kandake the sovereigness of the Kushites, who was in charge of all her treasury, and had come to Yerushalayim to worship,
28. and was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Yeshayahu.
29. And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and join him in that chariot.”
30. And running up, Philip heard him reading the prophet Yeshayahu, and said, “Do you know what you are reading?”
31. And he said, “How am I able, unless someone guides me?” And he called Philip near, to come up and sit with him.
32. And the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer, so He opened not His mouth.
33. “In His humiliation He was deprived of right-ruling. And who shall declare His generation? Because His life was taken from the earth.”
34. And the eunuch, answering Philip, said, “I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this, about himself or about some other?”
35. And Philip opening his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, brought to him the Good News: יהושע!