IN THOSE DAYS, an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Rise and go
toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza."
This is a desert road. And he rose and went. And behold, an Ethiopian,
a eunuch, a minister of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in
charge of all her treasure, had come to Jerusalem to worship and was
returning; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. And the
Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join this chariot." So Philip ran to
him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, "Do you
understand what you are reading?" And he said, "How can I, unless some one
guides me?" And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. Now the
passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: "As a sheep led
to the slaughter or a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he opens
not his mouth. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can
describe his generation? For his life is taken up from the earth." And the
eunuch said to Philip, "About whom, pray, does the prophet say this,
about himself or about some one else?" Then Philip opened his mouth,
and beginning with this scripture he told him the good news of Jesus.
And as they went along the road they came to some water, and the
eunuch said, "See, here is water! What is to prevent my being baptized?"
And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into
the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. And when they
came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught up Philip; and
the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
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