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Scriptures:
Acts 8:26-40
Now an angel of the Lord said to
Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to
Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an
important official in charge of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the
Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was
sitting in his chariot reading the book of Isaiah the prophet. The Spirit told
Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”
Then Philip ran up to the chariot and
heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are
reading?” Philip asked.
“How can I,” he said, “unless someone
explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
The eunuch was reading this passage of
Scripture:
“He was
led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a
lamb before the shearer is silent,
so he did
not open his mouth.
In his humiliation he was deprived of
justice.
Who can
speak of his descendants?
For his
life was taken from the earth.”
The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me,
please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” Then Philip
began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about
Jesus.
As they traveled along the road, they
came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I
be baptized?” And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the
eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. When they came up out
of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch
did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. Philip, however, appeared
at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he
reached Caesarea.
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