Apostelgeschichte 8:30

30 Philippus aber lief hinzu und hörte ihn den Propheten Jesaias lesen und sprach: Verstehst du auch, was du liesest?

Apostelgeschichte 8:30 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 8:30

And Philip ran thither to him
Being very ready to obey the divine order, and hoping he might be an instrument of doing some good, which might issue in the glory of God, and the welfare of men:

and heard him read the prophet Esaias;
that is, "the Book of Isaiah the Prophet"; as before; and so the Ethiopic and Arabic versions read here, as there: he read it out, with a clear and distinct voice, so that Philip could hear him; and this he did, partly through reverence to the word of God, and partly to fix his attention to it the more, that he might the better understand and remember it, and also for delight and pleasure: it is very likely, that it was the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew tongue in which he was reading, and which language he might understand, though he might be at a loss about the sense of the prophet:

and said, understandest thou what thou readest?
meaning not the language, but the sense; for overhearing him, he perceived it was a prophecy in Isaiah he was reading; which was not so easy to be understood as laws and precepts are, which command this, and forbid that; whereas prophecies were more abstruse, and regarded things to come.

Apostelgeschichte 8:30 In-Context

28 und er war auf der Rückkehr und saß auf seinem Wagen und las den Propheten Jesaias.

29 Der Geist aber sprach zu Philippus: Tritt hinzu und schließe dich diesem Wagen an.

30 Philippus aber lief hinzu und hörte ihn den Propheten Jesaias lesen und sprach: Verstehst du auch, was du liesest?

31 Er aber sprach: Wie könnte ich denn, wenn nicht jemand mich anleitet? Und er bat den Philippus, daß er aufsteige und sich zu ihm setze.

32 Die Stelle der Schrift aber, welche er las, war diese: "Er wurde wie ein Schaf zur Schlachtung geführt, und wie ein Lamm stumm ist vor seinem Scherer, also tut er seinen Mund nicht auf.