²⁶But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert road. ²⁷And he rose and went. And behold, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a minister of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of all her treasure, had come to Jerusalem to worship ²⁸and was returning; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go up and join this chariot.” ³⁰So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” ³¹And he said, “How can I, unless some one guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. ³²Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this:

“As a sheep led to the slaughter

or a lamb before its shearer is dumb,

so he opens not his mouth.

³³In his humiliation justice was denied him.

Who can describe his generation?

For his life is taken up from the earth.”

³⁴And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, pray, does the prophet say this, about himself or about some one else?” ³⁵Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this scripture he told him the good news of Jesus.

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