Acts 8:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁸ Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, ¹⁹ saying, ‘Give me also this power so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.’ ²⁰ But Peter said to him, ‘May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God’s gift with money!