Zephaniah 3:10
3:10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
those who pray to me will bring me tribute.
Acts 8:27-40
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.
8:39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any more, but went on his way rejoicing.
8:40 Philip, however, found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through the area, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.