Acts 8:30

And Philip ran forward, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah; and he said: Do you understand what you are reading?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

In Context

29And the Spirit said to Philip: Go forward and join yourself to this chariot.

31He answered: How can I, unless some one instruct me? And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:19When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, the wicked one comes and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he that received seed by the wayside.

Matthew 13:51Jesus said to them: Have you understood all these things? They said to him: Yes, Lord.

Matthew 24:15When, therefore, you see that detestable thing that makes desolate, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him that reads understand;)

Luke 24:44And he said to them: These are the words that I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled that are written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

John 5:39You search the scriptures, because in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify concerning me:

Matthew Henry on Acts 8:27-40

Philip and the Ethiopian. 26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. 27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, 28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. 29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join… Read the whole commentary →

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