Acts 8:30

So running up Philip heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said, “Do you really understand what you are reading?”

Family 35 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 this chariot.”

31So he said, “Well how can I, unless someone guides me?” And he urged Philip to come up and sit with him.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:19When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the malignant one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart—this is the seed sown alongside the road.

Matthew 13:51Jesus says to them, “Did you understand all these things?” They say to Him, “Yes, Lord.”

Matthew 24:15“So then, when you (ye) see the ‘abomination of desolation’, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand),

Luke 24:44Then He said to them, “These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything that is written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”

John 5:39You examine the Scriptures because in them you think you have eternal life, yet they are the very ones 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 →

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