Acts 8:28

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He was on his way home, sitting in his chariot and reading the book of the prophet Isaiah.

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  • Deut 6:6-7 : 6 These words that I am commanding you today are to be upon your heart. 7 Teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.
  • Deut 11:18-20 : 18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds. Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,
  • Deut 17:18-19 : 18 When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests. 19 It shall remain with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes to follow them.
  • Josh 1:8 : 8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
  • Ps 1:2-3 : 2 Instead, his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on His law, he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither; whatever he does prospers.
  • Ps 119:99 : 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.
  • Ps 119:111 : 111 I have inherited Your testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
  • Prov 2:1-6 : 1 My son, if you accept my words and treasure my commands with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding, 3 if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, 5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
  • Prov 8:33-34 : 33 Listen to instruction and be wise; do not neglect it. 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the doorposts of my entrances.
  • Isa 1:1 : 1 The vision of Isaiah, son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
  • Luke 3:4 : 4 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.'"
  • Luke 4:17 : 17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:
  • John 5:39-40 : 39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; yet it is they that testify about me. 40 But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.
  • Acts 17:11-12 : 11 The Bereans were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. 12 As a result, many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men.
  • Acts 28:25 : 25 They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: 'The Holy Spirit was right in speaking to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah:'
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
  • 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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    25When they had testified and proclaimed the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the good news to many Samaritan villages.

    26Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, 'Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.' (This is a desert road.)

    27So he got up and went. There he met an Ethiopian man, a eunuch and an important official in charge of all the treasury of the queen of the Ethiopians, known as Candace, who had gone to Jerusalem to worship.

  • Acts 8:29-40
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    29The Spirit said to Philip, 'Go up to that chariot and stay near it.'

    30Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked, 'Do you understand what you are reading?'

    31The man replied, 'How can I understand unless someone guides me?' And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

    32The passage of Scripture he was reading was this: 'Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.'

    33In his humiliation justice was taken away from him. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.

    34The eunuch said to Philip, 'I ask you, who is the prophet talking about? Himself or someone else?'

    35Then Philip began to speak, and starting from this Scripture, he preached to him the good news about Jesus.

    36As they traveled along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, 'Look, here is water! What is stopping me from being baptized?'

    37Philip said, 'If you believe with all your heart, you may.' The eunuch answered, 'I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.'

    38He ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

    39When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.

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    5Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed Christ to them.

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    16He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.

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