24 “Please pray[a] to the Lord for me,” Simon replied, “so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”(A)

25 Then, after they had testified and spoken the message of the Lord, they traveled back to Jerusalem, evangelizing many villages of the Samaritans.

The Conversion of the Ethiopian Official

26 An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: “Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is the desert road.)[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 8:24 Gk words you and pray are pl
  2. Acts 8:26 Or is a desert place

24 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me(A) so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

25 After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord(B) and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.(C)

Philip and the Ethiopian

26 Now an angel(D) of the Lord said to Philip,(E) “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”

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