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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Acts 8 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Acts 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/7.htm" title="Acts 7">◄</a> Acts 8 <a href="../acts/9.htm" title="Acts 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/acts/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Saul approved of their killing him.</p><p class="sectionhead">The Church Persecuted and Scattered</p><p class="reg">On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Philip in Samaria</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When the crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to what he said. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For with shrieks, impure spirits came out of many, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So there was great joy in that city.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Simon the Sorcerer</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Philip and the Ethiopian</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, from the southern Nile region">a</a></sup></span> eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,</p><p class="line2">and as a lamb before its shearer is silent,</p><p class="line2">so he did not open his mouth.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.</p><p class="line2">Who can speak of his descendants?</p><p class="line2">For his life was taken from the earth.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Isaiah 53:7,8 (see Septuagint)">b</a></sup></span> </p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-37.htm"><b>[37]</b></a></span> <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts include here Philip said, ''If you believe with all your heart, you may.'' The eunuch answered, ''I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.''">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/8-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, from the southern Nile region</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">33</span> <span class="footnotebot">Isaiah 53:7,8 (see Septuagint)</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">37</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts include here <i>Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” The eunuch answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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