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But Peter replied, “May your money be destroyed with you for thinking God’s gift can be bought!
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You can have no part in this, for your heart is not right with God.
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Repent of your wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive your evil thoughts,
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for I can see that you are full of bitter jealousy and are held captive by sin.”
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“Pray to the Lord for me,” Simon exclaimed, “that these terrible things you’ve said won’t happen to me!”
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After testifying and preaching the word of the Lord in Samaria, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem. And they stopped in many Samaritan villages along the way to preach the Good News.
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As for Philip, an angel of the Lord said to him, “Go south down the desert road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
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So he started out, and he met the treasurer of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under the Kandake, the queen of Ethiopia. The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
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and he was now returning. Seated in his carriage, he was reading aloud from the book of the prophet Isaiah.
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The Holy Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and walk along beside the carriage.”
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Philip ran over and heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah. Philip asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”