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Acts - ch 8 v 21 - 40
- Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter. For thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
- Do penance therefore for this thy wickedness; and pray to God, that perhaps this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.
- For I see thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bonds of iniquity.
- Then Simon answering, said: Pray you for me to the Lord, that none of these things which you have spoken may come upon me.
- And they indeed having testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many countries of the Samaritans.
- Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying: Arise, go towards the south, to the way that goeth down from Jerusalem into Gaza: this is desert.
- And rising up, he went. And behold a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge over all her treasures, had come to Jerusalem to adore.
- And he was returning, sitting in this chariot, and reading Isaias the prophet.
- And the Spirit said to Philip: Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
- And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?
- Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
- And the place of the scripture which he was reading was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb without voice before his shearer, so openeth he not his mouth.
- In humility his judgment was taken away. His generation who shall declare, for his life shall be taken from the earth?
- And the eunuch answering Philip, said: I beseech thee, of whom doth the prophet speak this? of himself, or of some other man?
- Then Philip, opening his mouth, and beginning at this scripture, preached unto him Jesus.
- And as they went on their way, they came to a certain water; and the eunuch said: See, here is water: what doth hinder me from being baptized?
- And Philip said: If thou believest with all thy heart, thou mayest. And he answering, said: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
- And he commanded the chariot to stand still; and they went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch: and he baptized him.
- And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took away Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing.
- But Philip was found in Azotus; and passing through, he preached the gospel to all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
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