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\v 13 Simon himself believed Philip's message and was baptized. He began to constantly accompany Philip, and he was continually amazed by the great miracles he saw Philip doing, things that showed Philip was speaking the truth.
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\v 14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that many people throughout Samaria district had believed God's message, they sent Peter and John there.
\v 15 When Peter and John arrived in Samaria, they prayed for those new believers to receive the Holy Spirit.
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\v 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
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\v 18 Simon saw that the Spirit was given to people as a result of the apostles placing their hands on them. So he offered to give money to the apostles,
\v 19 saying, "Enable me also to do what you are doing, so that everyone on whom I place my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."
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\v 24 Then Simon answered, "Pray to the Lord that he will not do to me what you just said!"
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\v 25 After Peter and John told people there what they knew personally about the Lord Jesus and declared to them the message of the Lord, they both returned to Jerusalem. Along the way they preached the good word about Jesus to people in the district of Samaria.
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\v 26 One day an angel whom the Lord God had sent commanded Philip, "Get ready and go south along the road that extends from Jerusalem to the city of Gaza." That was a road in a desert area.
\v 27 So Philip got ready and went along that road. On the road he met a man from the land of Ethiopia. He was an important official who took care of all the funds for the queen of Ethiopia. In his language people called their queen Candace. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship God,
\v 28 and he was returning home and was seated riding in his chariot. As he was riding, he was reading aloud in the book of the prophet Isaiah.
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\v 29 God's Spirit told Philip, "Go near to that chariot and keep walking close to it!"
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\v 31 He answered Philip, "No! I cannot possibly understand it if there is no one to explain it to me!" Then the man said to Philip, "Please come up and sit beside me."
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\v 32 The part of the scriptures that the official was reading was this: "He will be as unresisting as a sheep when people lead it away to kill it, or as a lamb when they cut its wool off. He will not protest.
\v 32 The part of the scriptures that the official was reading was this: "He is as calm as a sheep that people lead to the place where they are going to kill it, or as a lamb stands in silence while its wool is being cut off.
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\v 33 He will be humiliated; he will not receive justice. No one will possibly be able to tell about his descendants, because he will die."
\v 33 He will be humiliated. He will not receive justice. No one will be able to tell about his descendants—for he will have no descendants—because they will take away his life on this earth."
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\v 35 So Philip replied to him; he began with that scripture passage, and he told him the good message about Jesus.
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\v 36-37 While they were traveling along the road, they came to a place where there was some water. Then the official said to Philip, "Look, there is some water! I would like you to baptize me, because I do not know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized."
\v 38 So the official told the driver to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the official went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
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\v 39 When they came up out of the water, suddenly God's Spirit took Philip away. The official never saw Philip again. But although he never saw Philip again, the official continued going along the road, very happy.
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\v 40 Philip then realized that the Spirit had miraculously taken him to the town of Azotus. While he traveled around in that region, he continued proclaiming the message about Jesus in all the towns between the cities of Azotus and Caesarea. And he was still proclaiming it when he finally arrived in Caesarea.