Acts 8:30

World English Bible (2000)

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

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  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
  • Matt 13:19 : 19 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
  • Matt 13:23 : 23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."
  • Matt 13:51 : 51 Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?" They answered him, "Yes, Lord."
  • Matt 15:10 : 10 He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand.
  • Matt 24:15 : 15 "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
  • Mark 13:14 : 14 But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
  • Luke 24:44-45 : 44 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled." 45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
  • John 5:39 : 39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
  • 1 Cor 14:19 : 19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
  • Eph 5:17 : 17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
  • Rev 13:18 : 18 Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
  • Acts 8:27 : 27 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

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  • Acts 8:26-29
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    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; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

    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."

  • Acts 8:31-40
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    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

    38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

    39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn't see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

    40 But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

  • Acts 8:5-6
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    5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

    6 The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did.

  • John 1:43-46
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    43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."

    44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

    45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

    46 Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

  • Luke 4:17
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    17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

  • Luke 10:26
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    26 He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?"

  • John 12:21-22
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    21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

    22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.

  • Isa 6:9
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    9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'

  • Acts 28:26
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    26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

  • Neh 8:8
    69%

    8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

  • John 1:48
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    48 Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

  • John 12:41
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    41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

  • John 6:5
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    5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?"

  • John 14:8-9
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    8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."

    9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'

  • Mark 8:21
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    21 He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"

  • Acts 9:6
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    6 But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do."

  • Luke 24:45
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    45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

  • Acts 21:8
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    8 On the next day, we, who were Paul's companions, departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

  • Acts 8:13-14
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    13 Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

    14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

  • Isa 29:12
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    12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."

  • Matt 13:14
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    14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

  • John 12:38
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    38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

  • John 1:23
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    23 He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."

  • Acts 22:8
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    8 I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.'

  • John 1:37
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    37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

  • Acts 13:7
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    7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

  • Luke 24:32
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    32 They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"

  • Matt 12:17
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    17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

  • Acts 17:19-20
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    19 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

    20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

  • Luke 18:36
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    36 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.