Acts 8:36

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?'

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 10:47 : 47 Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive -- even as also we?'
  • Titus 3:5-6 : 5 (not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,
  • 1 John 5:6 : 6 This one is he who did come through water and blood -- Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood; and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth,
  • Ezek 36:25 : 25 And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.
  • John 3:5 : 5 Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;
  • John 3:23 : 23 and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized --

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    37`And Philip said, `If thou dost believe out of all the heart, it is lawful;' and he answering said, `I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God;''

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

    39and when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he was going on his way rejoicing;

    40and Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he was proclaiming good news to all the cities, till his coming to Cesarea.

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    34And the eunuch answering Philip said, `I pray thee, about whom doth the prophet say this? about himself, or about some other one?'

    35and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.

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    27And having arisen, he went on, and lo, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a man of rank, of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship to Jerusalem;

    28he was also returning, and is sitting on his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

    29And the Spirit said to Philip, `Go near, and be joined to this chariot;'

    30and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, `Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'

    31and he said, `Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.

    32And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: `As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;

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    47Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive -- even as also we?'

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    12And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women;

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    3and he said unto them, `To what, then, were ye baptized?' and they said, `To John's baptism.'

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    5and they, having heard, were baptized -- to the name of the Lord Jesus,

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    22After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

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    13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,

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    38he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'

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