8:26 Then an angel of the Lord ¹  said to Philip, ²  “Get up and go south ³  on the road that goes down from Jerusalem ⁴  to Gaza.” (This is a desert ⁵  road.) ⁶  8:27 So ⁷  he got up ⁸  and went. There ⁹  he met ¹⁰  an Ethiopian eunuch, ¹¹  a court official of Candace, ¹²  queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He ¹³  had come to Jerusalem to worship, ¹⁴  8:28 and was returning home, sitting ¹⁵  in his chariot, reading ¹⁶  the prophet Isaiah. 8:29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” 8:30 So Philip ran up ¹⁷  to it ¹⁸  and heard the man ¹⁹  reading Isaiah the prophet. He ²⁰  asked him, ²¹  “Do you understand what you’re reading?” 8:31 The man ²²  replied, “How in the world can I, ²³  unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 8:32 Now the passage of scripture the man ²⁴  was reading was this:

“He was led like a sheep to slaughter,

and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,

so he did ²⁵  not open his mouth.

8:33 In humiliation ²⁶  justice was taken from him. ²⁷ 

Who can describe his posterity? ²⁸ 

For his life was taken away ²⁹  from the earth.” ³⁰ 

8:34 Then the eunuch said ³¹  to Philip, “Please tell me, ³²  who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else?” ³³  8:35 So Philip started speaking, ³⁴  and beginning with this scripture ³⁵  proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him. 8:36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, there is water! What is to stop me ³⁶  from being baptized?” 8:37 [[EMPTY]] ³⁷  8:38 So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, ³⁸  and Philip baptized ³⁹  him. 8:39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any more, but ⁴⁰  went on his way rejoicing. ⁴¹  8:40 Philip, however, found himself ⁴²  at Azotus, ⁴³  and as he passed through the area, ⁴⁴  he proclaimed the good news ⁴⁵  to all the towns ⁴⁶  until he came to Caesarea. ⁴⁷