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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?”
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The man replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” And he urged Philip to come up into the carriage and sit with him.
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The passage of Scripture he had been reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter. And as a lamb is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
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He was humiliated and received no justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”