Acts 8:21-31

21 "You have ¹no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not ²right before God.

22 "Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, ³if possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you.

23 "For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in ⁴the bondage of iniquity."

24 But Simon answered and said, "⁵Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me."

An Ethiopian Receives Christ

25 So, when they had solemnly ⁶testified and spoken ⁷the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were ⁸preaching the gospel to many villages of the ⁹Samaritans.

26 But ¹⁰an angel of the Lord spoke to ¹¹Philip saying, "Get up and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to ¹²Gaza." (This is a desert road. )

27 So he got up and went; and ¹³there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and he ¹⁴had come to Jerusalem to worship,

28 and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

29 Then ¹⁵the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join this chariot."

30 Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

31 And he said, "Well, how could I, unless * someone guides me?" And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 12:12; Ephesians 5:5
• 2. Psalms 78:37
• 3. Isaiah 55:7
• 4. Isaiah 58:6
• 5. Genesis 20:7; Exodus 8:8; Numbers 21:7; James 5:16
• 6. Luke 16:28
• 7. Acts 13:12
• 8. Acts 8:40
• 9. Matthew 10:5
• 10. Acts 5:19; Acts 8:29
• 11. Acts 8:5
• 12. Genesis 10:19
• 13. Psalms 68:31; Psalms 87:4; Isaiah 56:3f
• 14. 1 Kings 8:41; John 12:20
• 15. Acts 8:39; Acts 10:19; Acts 11:12; Acts 13:2; Acts 16:6, 7; Acts 20:23; Acts 21:11; Acts 28:25; Hebrews 3:7

Footnotes

• [a] Or "teaching;" lit "word"
• [b] Lit "bond"
• [c] Or "This city is deserted"
• [d] Or "carriage"
• [e] Or "carriage"