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text of Acts |
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8:26-40
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Now
an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Go south to the
road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to
Gaza." 27So he started out, and on
his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge
of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. This man
had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in
his chariot reading the book of Isaiah the prophet. The Spirit told
Philip, "Go to that chariot and stay near it."
Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the
man reading Isaiah the prophet. "Do you understand what you are
reading?" Philip asked.
"How can I," he said, "unless
someone explains it to me?" So he invited Philip to come up and
sit with him.
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. In his
humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his
descendants? For his life was taken from the earth."
The eunuch asked Philip, "Tell me, please, who is
the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?" Then
Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the
good news about Jesus.
As they traveled along the road, they came
to some water and the eunuch said, "Look, here is water. Why
shouldn't I be baptized?" And he gave orders to stop the
chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water
and Philip baptized him.
When they came up
out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away,
and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.
Philip, however, appeared at Azotus
and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he
reached Caesarea.
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