Chapter 8, verses 23-37
23
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”
24
Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”
25
They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.
26
But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”
27
He arose and went
28
He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
29
The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”
30
Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
31
He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
32
Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
33
In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”
34
The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”
35
Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.
36
As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
37
And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
