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Acts - ch 8 v 21 - 40
- Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right before God.
- Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.
- For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.
- And Simon answered and said, Pray ye for me to the Lord, that none of the things which ye have spoken come upon me.
- They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.
- But an angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza: the same is desert.
- And he arose and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship;
- and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
- And the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
- And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
- And he said, How can I, except some one shall guide me? And he besought Philip to come up and sit with him.
- Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth:
- In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.
- And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other?
- And Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached unto him Jesus.
- And as they went on the way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch saith, Behold, `here is' water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
- `And Philip said, If thou believest with all thy heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.'
- And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
- And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing.
- But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached the gospel to all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
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