Acts 8:30-40

30 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

31 And he said, ¹"How can I, unless someone ²guides me?" And ³he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

32 Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: ⁴"Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth.

33 In his ⁵humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth."

34 And the eunuch said to Philip, "About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?"

35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and ⁶beginning with this Scripture ⁷he told him the good news about Jesus.

36 And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "See, here is water! ⁸What prevents me from being baptized?"^[a]

38 And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

39 And when they came up out of the water, ⁹the Spirit of the Lord ¹⁰carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.

40 But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.