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saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.
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But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
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Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
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Repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God, if perhaps this thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
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For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and
in the prison of iniquity.
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Then Simon answered and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
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And they, when they had testified and preached the word of God, returned to Jerusalem and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
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And the angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip, saying, Arise and go toward the south unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
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Then he arose and went, and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship,
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was returning and sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.
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Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near and join thyself to this chariot.