Acts 8:31

And he said, “How can I, unless someone helps me?” And he urged Philip to come up and sit with him.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

In Context

30And Phillip, running up to it, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

32Now the portion of the Scripture which he was reading was this: 1 “ He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; 1 and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, 1 so He opened not His mouth. 1

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Cross References

Matthew 18:3and said, “Assuredly I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Romans 10:14How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear apart from a preacher?

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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