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For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.
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And Simon answered and said, Pray ye for me to the Lord, that none of the things which ye have spoken come upon me.
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They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.
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But an angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza: the same is desert.
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And he arose and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship;
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and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
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And the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
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And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
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And he said, How can I, except some one shall guide me? And he besought Philip to come up and sit with him.
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Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth:
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In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.