Acts 8:31

World English Bible (2000)

He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

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  • Rom 10:14 : 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.
  • 1 Cor 14:36-37 : 36 What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone? 37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
  • Jas 1:21 : 21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
  • 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
  • 2 Kgs 5:9 : 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
  • 2 Kgs 5:26 : 26 He said to him, "Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
  • 2 Kgs 10:15-16 : 15 When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?" Jehonadab answered, "It is." "If it is, give me your hand." He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. 16 He said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh." So they made him ride in his chariot.
  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. 9 He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
  • Ps 73:16-17 : 16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me; 17 Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
  • Prov 30:2-3 : 2 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding. 3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
  • Isa 29:18-19 : 18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness. 19 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 35:8 : 8 A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
  • Matt 18:3-4 : 3 and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. 4 Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

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    26But 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."

    27He 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.

    28He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

    29The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot."

    30Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

  • Acts 8:32-40
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    32Now 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.

    33In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth."

    34The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?"

    35Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.

    36As 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

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

    39When 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.

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

  • John 1:43-44
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    43On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."

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

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  • John 9:35-37
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    35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

    36He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"

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    5Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

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

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    30and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

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