Acts 8:27-38
8:27 So
he got up
and went. There
he met
an Ethiopian eunuch,
a court official of Candace,
queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He
had come to Jerusalem to worship,
8:28 and was returning home, sitting
in his chariot, reading
the prophet Isaiah.
8:29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.”
8:30 So Philip ran up
to it
and heard the man
reading Isaiah the prophet. He
asked him,
“Do you understand what you’re reading?”
8:31 The man
replied, “How in the world can I,
unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
8:32 Now the passage of scripture the man
was reading was this:
“He was led like a sheep to slaughter,
and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8:33 In humiliation justice was taken from him.
Who can describe his posterity?
For his life was taken away from the earth.”
8:34 Then the eunuch said to Philip, “Please tell me, who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else?”
8:35 So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.
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 from being baptized?”
8:37 [[EMPTY]]
8:38 So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.