Acts 8:14-25

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Peter and John Come So The Samaritans Might Receive The Holy Spirit

¹⁴ And the apostles in Jerusalem, having heard that “Samaria has accepted the word of God”, sent-forth Peter and John to them— ¹⁵ who, having come down, prayed for them so that they might receive the Holy Spirit. ¹⁶ For He had not yet fallen upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁷ Then they were laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ Now Simon, having seen that the Spirit was given through the laying-on of the hands of the apostles, offered them money, ¹⁹ saying, “Give this authority to me also, so-that on whomever I lay on my hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit”. ²⁰ But Peter said to him, “May your silver be with you for destruction, because you thought to acquire the gift of God with money. ²¹ There is no part nor share for you in this matter. For your heart is not straight before God. ²² Therefore repent from this evilness of yours, and pray to the Lord, if perhaps^[a] the intention of your heart will be forgiven you. ²³ For I see you being in the gall^[b] of ^[c] bitterness and the bond^[d] of ^[e] unrighteousness”. ²⁴ And having responded, Simon said, “You^[f] two pray to the Lord for me, so that nothing of the things which you have spoken may come upon me”. ²⁵ So indeed the ones— having solemnly-testified, and having spoken the word of the Lord— were returning to Jerusalem and announcing-the-good-news-to many villages of the Samaritans.