Acts 8:24-31

New International Version

²⁴ Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me^(A) so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

²⁵ After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord^(B) and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.^(C)

Philip and the Ethiopian

²⁶ Now an angel^(D) of the Lord said to Philip,^(E) “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” ²⁷ So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian^[a](F) eunuch,^(G) an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,^{(H) 28} and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. ²⁹ The Spirit told^(I) Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”

³⁰ Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.

³¹ “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.