Acts 8:30
So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
29The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.”
31“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
Cross References
Psalms 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
Matthew 13:19When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
Matthew 13:51Have you understood all these things?” “Yes,” they answered.
Matthew 24:15So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),
Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
John 5:39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about 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 →