Acts 8:25–35

²⁵Then, after they had testified and spoken the message of the Lord, they traveled back to Jerusalem, evangelizing many villages of the Samaritans.

The Conversion of the Ethiopian Official

²⁶An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: “Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is the desert road.) ^kl27So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch ^mand high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, ⁿwho was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem ^o28and was sitting in his chariot on his way home, reading the prophet Isaiah aloud.

²⁹The Spirit told Philip, “Go and join that chariot.” ^p

³⁰When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

³¹“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. ³²Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,

and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,

so He does not open His mouth.

³³In His humiliation justice was denied Him.

Who will describe His generation?

For His life is taken from the earth. ^qr

³⁴The eunuch replied to Philip, “I ask you, who is the prophet saying this about—himself or another person?” ³⁵So Philip proceeded ^sto tell him the good news about Jesus, beginning from that Scripture. ^t