The Acts of the Emissaries, Chapter 8
{8:1} Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose
against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all
scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except
for the emissaries. {8:2} Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented
greatly over him. {8:3} But Saul 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 proclaiming the
word. {8:5} Philip went down to the city of Samaria, 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, Simon by name, who used to
practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, 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
proclaiming good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of
Yeshua the Messiah, they were immersed, both men and women. {8:13}
Simon himself also believed. Being immersed, he continued with Philip.
Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.
{8:14} Now when the emissaries who were at Jerusalem heard that
Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter 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 Simon 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 whomever I lay my hands
on may receive the Holy Spirit." {8:20} But Peter 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} Simon 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 Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many
villages of the Samaritans. {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 Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert."
{8:27} He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a
[1>]eunuch[<1] of great authority under Candace, queen of the
Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem
to worship. {8:28} He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and
was reading the prophet Isaiah.
{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 Isaiah 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."[2]
{8:34} The [3>]eunuch[<3] 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 [4>]eunuch[<4] said, "Behold, here is water. What
is keeping me from being immersed?"
{8:37} [5] {8:38} He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they
both went down into the water, both Philip and the [6>]eunuch,[<6] 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 Azotus.
Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he
came to Caesarea.
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Footnotes:
[1] {8:27} The Peshitta Aramaic word also means "faithful one" or
"believer."
[2] {8:33} Isaiah 53:7,8
[3] {8:34} see note Acts 8:27
[4] {8:36} see note Acts 8:27
[5] {8:37} TR adds "Philip said, 'If you believe with all your heart,
you may.' He answered, 'I believe that Yeshua the Messiah is the Son of
God.'"
[6] {8:38} see note Acts 8:27
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