wmth - Acts:8:26-40

wmth@Acts:8:26 @ And an angel of the Lord said to Philip, »Rise and proceed south to the road that runs down from Jerusalem to Gaza, crossing the Desert.«

wmth@Acts:8:27 @ Upon this he rose and went. Now, as it happened, an Ethiopian eunuch who was in a position of high authority with Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, as her treasurer, had visited Jerusalem to worship there,

wmth@Acts:8:28 @ and was now on his way home; and as he sat in his chariot he was reading the Prophet Isaiah.

wmth@Acts:8:29 @ Then the Spirit said to Philip, »Go and enter that chariot.«

wmth@Acts:8:30 @ So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah. »Do you understand what you are reading?« he asked.

wmth@Acts:8:31 @ »Why, how can I,« replied the eunuch, »unless some one explains it to me?« And he earnestly invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

wmth@Acts:8:32 @ The passage of Scripture which he was reading was this:

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wmth@Acts:8:34 @ »Pray, of whom is the Prophet speaking?« inquired the eunuch; »of himself or of some one else?«

wmth@Acts:8:35 @ Then Philip began to speak, and, commencing with that same portion of Scripture, told him the Good News about Jesus.

wmth@Acts:8:36 @ So they proceeded on their way till they came to some water; and the eunuch exclaimed, »See, here is water; what is there to prevent my being baptized?«

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wmth@Acts:8:38 @ So he stopped the chariot; and both of them –Philip and the eunuch– went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

wmth@Acts:8:39 @ But no sooner had they come up out of the water than the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again. With a glad heart he resumed his journey;

wmth@Acts:8:40 @ but Philip found himself at Ashdod. Then visiting town after town he everywhere made known the Good News until he reached Caesarea.