Acts 8:30
And Phillip, running up to it, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
29Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”
31And he said, “How can I, unless someone helps me?” And he urged Philip to come up and sit with him.
Cross References
Matthew 13:19When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand, then the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed that was sown beside the road.
Matthew 13:51Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”
Matthew 24:15“Therefore when you see the ‘ abomination of desolation,’ spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand),
Luke 24:44Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”
John 5:39You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which 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 →