DAY 8




 AC-7:52  Which of the prophets have not your fathers


persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the


coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers

and


murderers:




AC-7:53  Who have received the law by the disposition of angels,

and


have not kept [it].




AC-7:54  When they heard these things, they were cut to the

heart,


and they gnashed on him with [their] teeth.




AC-7:55  But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up

stedfastly


into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the


right hand of God,




AC-7:56  And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son

of


man standing on the right hand of God.




AC-7:57  Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their


ears, and ran upon him with one accord,




AC-7:58  And cast [him] out of the city, and stoned [him]: and

the


witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose

name


was Saul.




AC-7:59  And they stoned Stephen, calling upon [God], and saying,


Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.




AC-7:60  And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord,

lay


not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell


asleep.




*AC-8:1  And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time


there was a great persecution against the church which was at


Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the

regions


of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.




AC-8:2  And devout men carried Stephen [to his burial], and made


great lamentation over him.




AC-8:3  As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into


every house, and haling men and women committed [them] to prison.




AC-8:4  Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every

where


preaching the word.




AC-8:5  Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and

preached


Christ unto them.




AC-8:6  And the people with one accord gave heed unto those

things


which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.




AC-8:7  For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of


many that were possessed [with them]: and many taken with

palsies,


and that were lame, were healed.




AC-8:8  And there was great joy in that city.




AC-8:9  But there was a certain man, called Simon, which

beforetime


in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of

Samaria,


giving out that himself was some great one:




AC-8:10  To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the

greatest,


saying, This man is the great power of God.




AC-8:11  And to him they had regard, because that of long time he


had bewitched them with sorceries.




AC-8:12  But when they believed Philip preaching the things


concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they


were baptized, both men and women.




AC-8:13  Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was

baptized,


he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles

and


signs which were done.




AC-8:14  Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that


Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter

and


John:




AC-8:15  Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that

they


might receive the Holy Ghost:




AC-8:16  (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they

were


baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)




AC-8:17  Then laid they [their] hands on them, and they received

the


Holy Ghost.






AC-8:18  And when Simon saw that through laying on of the

apostles'


hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,




AC-8:19  Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I

lay


hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.




AC-8:20  But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee,


because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased

with


money.




AC-8:21  Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy


heart is not right in the sight of God.




AC-8:22  Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God,

if


perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.




AC-8:23  For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness,

and


[in] the bond of iniquity.




AC-8:24  Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for

me,


that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.




AC-8:25  And they, when they had testified and preached the word

of


the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many


villages of the Samaritans.




AC-8:26  And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying,

Arise,


and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from

Jerusalem


unto Gaza, which is desert.




AC-8:27  And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia,

an


eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians,

who


had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem

for to


worship,




AC-8:28  Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias

the


prophet. 




 


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