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saying, "Give this authority to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."

But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could ^(C1)acquire the gift of God with money!

"You have ^(C1)no part or share in this ^(F1)matter, for your heart is not ^(C2)right before God.

"Therefore, repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, ^(C1)if possible, the intention of your heart will be forgiven you.

"For I see that you are ^(F1)in the gall of bitterness and in ^(C1)the ^(F2)bondage of unrighteousness."

But Simon answered and said, "^(C1)Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me."

So, when they had solemnly ^(C1)testified and spoken ^(C2)the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were ^(C3)preaching the gospel to many villages of the ^(C4)Samaritans.

But ^(C1)an angel of the Lord spoke to ^(C2)Philip, saying, "Get ready and go ^(F1)south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to ^(C3)Gaza." (^(F2)This is a desert road.)