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20:18 Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.” 19 (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.)
20:13 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.
16: 28 “I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father.”
13:25 So while reclining next to Jesus, the disciple whom Jesus loved, asked him, “Lord, who is it?”
13:6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
6:6 Jesus said this to test Philip, for Jesus himself knew what he was going to do.
According to Luke’s account in Acts 8, Simon’s crime that earned Peter’s harsh rebuke was that Simon, seeing the “power” exercised by Peter and John, attempted to buy that gift of God from the apostles.
When Luke describes Philip’s ministry in Acts chapter 8, he goes to some lengths to make it clear that Philip’s teaching had a powerful impact on the crowds.
I may have missed something that to the rest of the Christian world is utterly self-evident, but the second Scripture reading appointed in the Revised Common Lectionary for this coming Sunday seems to me to be a curious and a troubling little passage buried in chapter 8 of the Book of Acts.
In A Spacious Place 