World English Bible: Acts

8:24 Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me." 8:25 They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans. 8:26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert." 8:27 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship. 8:28 He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah. 8:29 The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot." 8:30 Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?" 8:31 He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with him. 8:32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn't open his mouth. 8:33 In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth." 8:34 The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?"