Acts 8:25–35

²⁵They indeed, therefore, having testified fully, and spoken the word of the Lord, did turn back to Jerusalem; in many villages also of the Samaritans they did proclaim good news.

²⁶And a messenger of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, ‘Arise, and go on toward the south, on the way that is going down from Jerusalem to Gaza,’—this is desert. ²⁷And having arisen, he went on, and lo, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a man of rank, of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship to Jerusalem; ²⁸he was also returning, and is sitting on his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go near, and be joined to this chariot;’ ³⁰and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, ‘Dost thou then know what thou dost read?’ ³¹and he said, ‘Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?’ he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him. ³²And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: ‘As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth; ³³in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation—who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.’ ³⁴And the eunuch answering Philip said, ‘I pray thee, about whom doth the prophet say this? about himself, or about some other one?’ ³⁵and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him—Jesus.