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For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.
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And Simon, answering, said, Make prayer for me to the Lord, so that these things which you have said may not come on me.
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So they, having given their witness and made clear the word of the Lord, went back to Jerusalem, giving the good news on their way in a number of the small towns of Samaria.
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But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land.
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And he went and there was a man of Ethiopia, a servant of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, and controller of all her property, who had come up to Jerusalem for worship;
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He was going back, seated in his carriage, and was reading the book of the prophet Isaiah.
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And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near, and get on his carriage.
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And Philip, running up to him, saw that he was reading Isaiah the prophet, and said to him, Is the sense of what you are reading clear to you?
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And he said, How is that possible when I have no guide? And he made Philip get up by his side.
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Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound:
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Being of low degree, his cause was not given a hearing: who has knowledge of his family? for his life is cut off from the earth.