Acts, Chapter 8
{8:1} Sha'ul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose
against the assembly which was in Yerushalayim in that day. They were
all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Yehudah and Shomron,
except for the emissaries. {8:2} Devout men buried Stephen, and
lamented greatly over him. {8:3} But Sha'ul ravaged the assembly,
entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to
prison. {8:4} Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around
preaching the word. {8:5} Philip went down to the city of Shomron, and
proclaimed to them the Messiah. {8:6} The multitudes listened with one
accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and
saw the signs which he did. {8:7} For unclean spirits came out of many
of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many
who had been paralyzed and lame were healed. {8:8} There was great joy
in that city.
{8:9} But there was a certain man, Shim`on by name, who used to
practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Shomron, making
himself out to be some great one, {8:10} to whom they all listened,
from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is that great power
of God." {8:11} They listened to him, because for a long time he had
amazed them with his sorceries. {8:12} But when they believed Philip
preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of
Yeshua the Messiah, they were immersed, both men and women. {8:13}
Shim`on himself also believed. Being immersed, he continued with
Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occuring, he was amazed.
{8:14} Now when the emissaries who were at Yerushalayim heard that
Shomron had received the word of God, they sent Kefa and Yochanan to
them, {8:15} who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they
might receive the Holy Spirit; {8:16} for as yet he had fallen on none
of them. They had only been immersed in the name of Messiah Yeshua.
{8:17} Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy
Spirit. {8:18} Now when Shim`on saw that the Holy Spirit was given
through the laying on of the emissaries' hands, he offered them money,
{8:19} saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands
on may receive the Holy Spirit." {8:20} But Kefa said to him, "May
your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the
gift of God with money! {8:21} You have neither part nor lot in this
matter, for your heart isn't right before God. {8:22} Repent therefore
of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your
heart may be forgiven you. {8:23} For I see that you are in the gall
of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."
{8:24} Shim`on answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the
things which you have spoken happen to me."
{8:25} They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word
of the Lord, returned to Yerushalayim, and preached the Good News to
many villages of the Shomroni. {8:26} But an angel of the Lord spoke
to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go toward the south to the way that
goes down from Yerushalayim to `Aza. This is a desert."
{8:27} He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Kush, a
eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Kushim, who was
over all her treasure, who had come to Yerushalayim to worship. {8:28}
He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the
prophet Yesha`yahu.
{8:29} The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to
this chariot."
{8:30} Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Yesha`yahu the
prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
{8:31} He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He
begged Philip to come up and sit with him. {8:32} Now the passage of
the Scripture which he was reading was this,
"He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.
As a lamb before his shearer is silent,
So he doesn't open his mouth.
{8:33} In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away.
Who will declare His generation?
For his life is taken from the earth."
{8:34} The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking
about? About himself, or about someone else?"
{8:35} Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture,
preached to him Yeshua. {8:36} As they went on the way, they came to
some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is
keeping me from being immersed?"
{8:37} {8:38} He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they
both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he
immersed him.
{8:39} When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord
caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn't see him any more, for he
went on his way rejoicing. {8:40} But Philip was found at Ashdod.
Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he
came to Caesarea.
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