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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 ^(ab)obtain the gift of God with money!

You have ^(ac)no part or portion in this ^[f]matter, for your heart is not ^(ad)right before God.

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

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in ^(af)the ^[g]bondage of iniquity."

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

So, when they had solemnly ^(ah)testified and spoken ^(ai)the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were ^(aj)preaching the gospel to many villages of the ^(ak)Samaritans.

But ^(al)an angel of the Lord spoke to ^(am)Philip saying, "Get up and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to ^(an)Gaza." (^[h]This is a desert road.)