Acts 8:36

8:36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, there is water! What is to stop me ¹  from being baptized?”

Acts 13:10

13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, ²  you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness – will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? ³ 

---

¹ tn Or “What prevents me.” The rhetorical question means, “I should get baptized, right?”

² tn Or “unscrupulousness.”

³ sn “You who…paths of the Lord?” This rebuke is like ones from the OT prophets: Jer 5:27; Gen 32:11; Prov 10:7; Hos 14:9. Five separate remarks indicate the magician’s failings. The closing rhetorical question of v. 10 (“will you not stop…?”) shows how opposed he is to the way of God.