Acts 8:31

The man said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

Text-Critical English 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

30So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading the prophet Isaiah. He said, “Do yoʋ understand what yoʋ are reading?”

32This is the passage of Scripture that he was reading: “Like a sheep he was led to slaughter. And as a lamb is silent before its shearer, so he did not open his mouth.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:3and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you change and become like little children, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Romans 10:14How then will they call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone 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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