Acts 8:31

and he said, 'Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.

Young's Literal Translation

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, 'Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'

32And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: 'As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;

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Cross References

2 Kings 5:26And he saith unto him, 'My heart went not when the man turned from off his chariot to meet thee; is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olives, and vines, and flock, and herd, and men-servants, and maid-servants?

Psalms 25:8Good and upright [is] Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way.

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

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

Matthew 18:3and said, 'Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

Romans 10:14How then shall they call upon [him] in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe [on him] of whom they did not hear? and how shall 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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