Acts 8:25–35

²⁵They therefore, having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced the glad tidings to many villages of the Samaritans.

²⁶But the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise up and go southward on the way which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza: the same is desert. ²⁷And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem, ²⁸was returning and sitting in his chariot: and he was reading the prophet Esaias. ²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, Approach and join this chariot. ³⁰And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of? ³¹And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him. ³²And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth. ³³In his humiliation his judgment has been taken away, and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. ³⁴And the eunuch answering Philip said, I pray thee, concerning whom does the prophet say this? of himself or of some other? ³⁵And Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from that scripture, announced the glad tidings of Jesus to him.