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\subsection{Acts 8}
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\VS{1} Now Saul was approving to his execution. So in that day [a] great persecution
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came to pass upon the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} in Jerusalem; now all scattered through the
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regions of Judea and Samaria except the apostles.
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\VS{2} So devout men
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buried Stephen and did great lamentation upon him.
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\VS{3} But Saul was
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damaging the assembly\fnEkklhsia{}, proceeding [house] by house, and dragging both men and women he was delivering them up to prison.
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\VS{4} Now indeed therefore, having scattered, they went [about] good-newsing the
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word.
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\VS{5} Now Phillip, having gone down to the city of Samaria, was
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proclaiming to them the Christ.
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\VS{6} Now the crowd heeded the [thing] said by
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Phillip with one purpose when they heard and saw the signs which he did.
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\VS{7} For many of those having unclean spirits, crying out with [a] great
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voice, they were coming out, and many disabled and lame were healed.
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\VS{8} So great joy came [about] in that city.
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\VS{9} Now there was living in the city a
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certain man, Simon by name, practicing-magic\footnote{\MAGOS} and amazing the nation of
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Samaria, some saying him to be great,
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\VS{10} whom all heeded from small to
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great saying: This is the power of God [who is] called great.
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\VS{11} So they heeded
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him because of their being amazed by his magic for some time.
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\VS{12} Now
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when they believed by Phillip good-newsing concerning the kingdom of God and
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[concerning] the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were being baptized.
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\VS{13}
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Now Simon himself also believed, and having been baptized, was attaching
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[himself] to Phillip, and beholding the signs and great powers coming to pass he was
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amazed.
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\VS{14} Now the apostles in Jerusalem having heard that Samaria
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received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John,
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\VS{15} who
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having come down, they prayed concerning them in order that they receive
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[the] Holy Spirit.
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\VS{16} For [the spirit] was not yet fallen upon \negd{any} of them,
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but they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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\VS{17} Then they were
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placing their hands upon them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.
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\VS{18} Now Simon having seen that through the placing on of the hands of
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the apostles is the spirit given, he brought to them money,
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\VS{19} saying:
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Give to me also this authority in order that to whom I place on my hands he
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be receiving [the] Holy Spirit.
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\VS{20} But Peter said to him: Your silver might
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be with you to destruction, because [of your] having thought the gift of God to be
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acquired through money.
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\VS{21} There is not part nor portion to you in this
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word, for your heart is not upright\footnote{or ``straight''} in the eyes of
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God.
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\VS{22} Repent therefore from this your evil, and request of the
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Lord if perhaps the thought [of your] heart will be forgiven.
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\VS{23} For I see you
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being to [the] gall of bitterness and [the] bond of injustice.
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\VS{24} But Simon
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answering said: You request in my behalf to the Lord, in order that nothing
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come to pass upon me of which you spoke.
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\VS{25} Indeed therefore witnessing
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and speaking the word of God they were returning to Jerusalem, and many
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towns of the Samaritans were good-newsed.
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\VS{26} Now [an] angel of [the] Lord spoke to Phillip saying: Arise and be going
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south upon the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. [now] this is wilderness.
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\VS{27} And
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having arisen he went. And behold an Ethiopian eunuch of the sovereign
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Candaces queen of Ethiopia, who was over all her treasury, whom she sent
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worshipping to Jerusalem.
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\VS{28} Now he was returning, sitting on his
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chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
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\VS{29} Now the spirit said to
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Phillip: Go and associate with this chariot.
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\VS{30} Now having run up,
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Phillip heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said: Do you understand
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what you read?
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\VS{31} And he said: But how might I be able unless someone
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guide me? And he called upon Phillip, having come up, to sit with him.
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\VS{32} Now the portion of the scripture which he was reading was this\footnote{Isa.53:7}:
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\begin{verse}
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He was brought as [a] sheep to [the] slaughter, \\
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And mute as [a] lamb before the shearers, \\
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Thus does he not open his mouth. \\
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\VS{33} His judgment was raised in humility. \\
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Who will describe his generation? \\
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Because his zoe-life\fnZoe{} is taken from the land.
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\end{verse}
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\VS{34} So, answering the eunuch said to Phillip: I ask you concerning whom
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does the prophet say this? Concerning himself or concerning another?
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\VS{35}
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So Phillip, having opened his mouth and beginning from this scripture,
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good-newsed to him Jesus.
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\VS{36} Now as they were going down the road, they
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came upon some water, and the eunuch says: Behold water --- what hinders me
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to be baptized? [
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\VS{37} Phillip said to him: If you believe from your whole
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heart, it is possible. And he answered: I believe the son of God to be Jesus
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Christ.]\footnote{include vs. 37: few; omit vs. 37: \papyrus{45,74}\sinaiticus{}B \koine{} \vulgate{} }
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\VS{38} And he called the chariot to stand, and both went down to the
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water, both Phillip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
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\VS{39} Now when
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they came up out of the water, [the] spirit of the Lord snatched Phillip and the
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eunuch saw him \negd{no longer}, for he went his way rejoicing.
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\VS{40} But Phillip was found in Azotos, and going through he was
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good-newsing all the cities until he came to Caesarea.
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