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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.
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And the Spirit said to Philip, Approach and join this chariot.
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And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?
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And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
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And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.
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In his humiliation his judgment has been taken away, and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.