Acts 8:25–35

²⁵So when^* they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they turned back toward Jerusalem, and were proclaiming the good news to many villages of the Samaritans.

Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch

²⁶Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Get up and go toward the south^l on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a desert road.) ²⁷And he got up and^* went, and behold, there was a man, an Ethiopian eunuch (a court official of Candace,^m queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury) who had come to worship in Jerusalem ²⁸and was returning and sitting in his chariot, and reading aloud the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, “Approach and join this chariot.” ³⁰So Philip ran up to it^* and^* heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, “So then, do you understand what you are reading?” ³¹And he said, “So how could I, unless someone will guide me?” And he invited Philip to come up and^* sit with him. ³²Now the passage of scripture that he was reading aloud was this:

“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,

and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,

so he did not open his mouth.

³³In his^* humiliation justice was taken from him.

Who can describe his descendants?ⁿ

For his life was taken away from the earth.”^o

³⁴And the eunuch answered and^* said to Philip, “I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this—about himself or about someone else?” ³⁵So Philip opened his mouth and beginning from this scripture, proclaimed the good news to him about Jesus.