Acts 8:26–33 · BSB
8:26
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
8:27
So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
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8:28
and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.
8:29
The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.”
8:30
So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
8:31
“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
8:32
The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
8:33
In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”
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