Acts 8:14-25 And when the legates at Jerusalem, heard that the people of the Samaritans had received the word of God, they sent out to them Simon Cephas and John.

Murdock⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ And when the legates at Jerusalem, heard that the people of the Samaritans had received the word of God, they sent out to them Simon Cephas and John. ¹⁵ And they went down, and prayed over them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit. ¹⁶ For he was not yet on any one of them; and they had only been baptized in the name of our Lord Jesus. ¹⁷ Then they laid the hand on them; and they received the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of a hand of the legates, the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, ¹⁹ saying: Give me also this prerogative, that he on whom I impose a hand, may receive the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ Simon Cephas said to him: Thy money go with thee to perdition! because thou hast supposed, that the gift of God may be purchased by a worldly substance. ²¹ Thou hast no part nor lot in this faith; because thy heart is not right before God. ²² Nevertheless, repent of this thy wickedness, and entreat of God, if perhaps the guile of thy heart may be forgiven thee. ²³ For I perceive that thou art in the bitter gall and in the bonds of iniquity. ²⁴ Simon answered and said: Intercede ye with God for me, that nothing of which ye have mentioned may come upon me. ²⁵ And Simon and John, when they had testified, and had taught them the word of God, returned to Jerusalem. And they had preached in many villages of the Samaritans.