Godbey - Acts - 8

8:1  And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there was a great persecution in that day against the church in Jerusalem: and all were dispersed abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

8:2  And godly men buried Stephen, and made great mourning over him.

8:3  But Saul was laying waste the church, entering into the houses, and arresting men and women, he committed them to prison.

8:4  Therefore indeed, being dispersed abroad, they went everywhere preaching the word:

8:5  and Philip, having gone down to the city of Samaria, was preaching Christ to them,

8:6  And the multitudes were unanimously giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, while they were hearing and seeing the miracles which he was performing.

8:7  For many of those having unclean spirits, roaring with a loud voice, went out: and many paralyzed and lame were healed;

8:8  and there was great joy in that city.

8:9  And a certain man, by name Simon, was formerly practicing magic in the city, and bewitching the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great man:

8:10  to whom all from small even unto the great gave heed, saying, This one is the power of God, called Great.

8:11  And they gave heed to him, because for a long time he had deceived them with his magic arts.

8:12  But when they believed Philip preaching the gospel concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

8:13  But Simon himself also believed: and being baptized, was constantly with Philip, both seeing the miracles and the great dynamites performed, was astonished.

8:14  But the apostles in Jerusalem, having heard that Samaria has received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John:

8:15  who, having come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost.

8:16  For he had not yet fallen on any of them: but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

8:17  Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

8:18  But Simon seeing that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the Spirit was given, offered them money, saying,

8:19  Give me this power, that on whomsoever I may lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

8:20  And Peter said to him, Thy silver be unto destruction with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money.

8:21  There is neither part nor lot to thee in this word: for thy heart is not right before God.

8:22  Therefore repent of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perchance the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee;

8:23  for I see thou art in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity.

8:24  And Simon responding said, You pray to the Lord for me, in order that none of these things of which you have spoken may come upon me.

8:25  Then indeed, witnessing and speaking the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

8:26  And the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise, and go towards the south unto the way going down from Jerusalem to Gaza; the same is desert.

8:27  And rising up, he departed. And, behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, an officer of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury, had been to Jerusalem to worship,

8:28  and was returning, and sitting upon his chariot he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

8:29  And the Spirit said to Philip, Go, and join yourself to that chariot.

8:30  And Philip running forth, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said; Whether do you understand what you are reading?

8:31  And he said, How could I, unless some one shall guide me? And he called upon Philip coming up, to sit with him;

8:32  and the place of the scripture which he was reading was this, He was led like a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before the one shearing him is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

8:33  In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare His generation? because his life is taken from the earth.

8:34  And the eunuch responding to Philip, said, I pray thee, concerning whom does the prophet speak this? concerning himself, or some other man?

8:35  Philip opening his mouth, and beginning from the same scripture, preached Jesus to him.

8:36  And while they were journeying along the road, they came to a certain water: and the eunuch says, Behold water; what doth hinder me from being baptized?

8:38  And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both came down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

8:39  And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more: for he went on his way rejoicing.

8:40  And Philip was found at Azotus: and going through he preached the gospel to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.