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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,
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and was now on his way home; and as he sat in his chariot he was reading the Prophet Isaiah.
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Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go and enter that chariot."
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So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked.
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"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.
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The passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: "Like a sheep He was led to slaughter, and just as a lamb before its shearer is dumb so He opened not His mouth.
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In His humiliation justice was denied Him. Who will make known His posterity? For He is destroyed from among men."
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"Pray, of whom is the Prophet speaking?" inquired the eunuch; "of himself or of some one else?"
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Then Philip began to speak, and, commencing with that same portion of Scripture, told him the Good News about Jesus.
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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?"