Acts 8:31

“How can I, unless someone explains it?” the man replied. He invited Philip to get in and sit beside him.

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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

30So Philip ran over, and heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah. “Do you understand what you're reading?” Philip asked him.

32The Scripture passage he was reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to be slaughtered. Like a lamb is silent in front of his shearer, he didn't say a word.

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Cross References

2 Kings 5:26But Elisha told him, “Didn't I see you in my mind's eye when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?

Psalms 25:8The Lord is good and he is right; that is why he shows the way to those who are lost.

Psalms 73:22I was stupid and ignorant. I was like a brute beast to you.

Isaiah 29:18At that time the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and the eyes of the blind will see through the gloomy darkness what's written there.

Matthew 18:3“I tell you the truth, unless you change the way you think and become like little children, you won't ever enter the kingdom of heaven,” he told them.

Romans 10:14But how can people call on someone they don't trust? How can they trust someone they haven't heard about? How can they hear unless they're told?

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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