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Acts 8:26-40 — Philip and the Ethiopian

Acts.8.26-40

²⁶Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert road. ²⁷So he got up and went. And behold, there was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship, ²⁸and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” ³⁰So Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” ³¹And he said, “How could I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. ³²Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: "He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he does not open his mouth. ³³In humiliation justice was taken away from him. Who will recount his generation? For his life is taken from the earth." ³⁴The eunuch answered Philip and said, “I ask you, about whom is the prophet saying this? About himself or about someone else?” ³⁵Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, he proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him. ³⁶As they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, water! What prevents me from being baptized?” ³⁸And he ordered the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. ³⁹When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing. ⁴⁰But Philip found himself at Azotus , and as he was passing through, he was proclaiming the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

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4/11/2026

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