Acts 8:24-26

Expanded Bible

²⁴ Simon answered, “Both of you pray for me to the Lord so the things you have said will not happen to me.”

²⁵ After ·Peter and John [^Lthey] ·told the people what they had seen Jesus do [^Ltestified; bore witness] and after they had spoken the ·message [word] of the Lord, they went back to Jerusalem. On the way, they went through many Samaritan ·towns [villages] and preached the ·Good News [Gospel] to the people.

Philip Teaches an Ethiopian

²⁶ An angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get ·ready [up] and go ·south [or at about noon] to the road that leads down to Gaza from Jerusalem [^Ca distance of about fifty miles]—the ·desert [wilderness] road.”