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But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the [Holy] Spirit was given, offered them money,
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saying, Give to me also this power, in order that on whomsoever I may lay hands he may receive [the] Holy Spirit.
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And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can be obtained by money.
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Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not upright before God.
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Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee;
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for I see thee to be in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness.
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And Simon answering said, Supplicate *ye* for me to the Lord, so that nothing may come upon me of the things of which ye have spoken.
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They therefore, having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced the glad tidings to many villages of the Samaritans.
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But [the] angel of [the] Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise up and go southward on the way which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza: the same is desert.
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And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,
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was returning and sitting in his chariot: and he was reading the prophet Esaias.