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Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch

Acts 8:26-40

Chapter 8

²⁶ But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Get up and go toward the south on the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert." ²⁷ He got up and went on his way, and there was a man, an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem. ²⁸ And he was returning, sitting in his chariot and reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹ But the Spirit said to Philip, "Draw near and join yourself to this chariot." ³⁰ But when Philip ran up, he heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, "Do you really understand what you are reading?" ³¹ But he said, "How could I, unless someone guides me?" And he urged Philip, who had gone up, to sit with him. ³² Now the passage of Scripture he was reading was this: "Like a sheep he was led to slaughter, and like a lamb voiceless before the one shearing it, he does not open his mouth." ³³ In his humiliation his judgment was taken away. His generation—who will describe it? Because his life is taken from the earth. ³⁴ The eunuch answered Philip, "I beg you, about whom does the prophet say this? About himself or about someone else?" ³⁵ Opening his mouth, Philip began from this Scripture and proclaimed the gospel of Jesus to him. ³⁶ As they were traveling along the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Look, water! What prevents me from being baptized?" ³⁸ He commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. ³⁹ When, however, they went up from the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no longer, for he was going on his way rejoicing. ⁴⁰ But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he was proclaiming the gospel in all the cities until he came to Caesarea.