Acts 8:27–38

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. ³⁶And as they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?”^{p 38}And he ordered the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water—Philip and the eunuch—and he baptized him.