Acts 8:31

And he said, “Why, how am I able, if someone may not guide me?” He called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.

Literal Standard Version

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 Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said, “Do you then know what you read?”

32And the passage of the Writing that he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to slaughter, || And as a lamb before his shearer is silent, || So He does not open His mouth;

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Cross References

2 Kings 5:26And he says to him, “My heart did not go when the man turned from off his chariot to meet you; is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olives, and vines, and flock, and herd, and menservants, and maidservants?

Psalms 25:8Good and upright [is] YHWH, || Therefore He directs sinners in the way.

Psalms 73:22And I am brutish, and do not know. I have been a beast with You.

Isaiah 29:18And the deaf have heard the words of a scroll in that day, || And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, || The eyes of the blind see.

Matthew 18:3and said, “Truly I say to you, if you may not be turned and become as the children, you may not enter into the kingdom of the heavens;

Romans 10:14How then will they call on [Him] in whom they did not believe? And how will they believe [on Him] of whom they did not hear? And how will they hear apart from one preaching?

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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