Acts 8:26-40

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."

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,

28 and was now on his way home; and as he sat in his chariot he was reading the Prophet Isaiah.

29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go and enter that chariot."

30 So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked.

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.

32 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.

33 In His humiliation justice was denied Him. Who will make known His posterity? For He is destroyed from among men."

34 "Pray, of whom is the Prophet speaking?" inquired the eunuch; "of himself or of some one else?"

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

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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38 So he stopped the chariot; and both of them--Philip and the eunuch--went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

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;

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