Acts 8:25–40

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8:25 Filippos immerses the Kushi official

25 After that, Kefa (Peter; Grk. Petros) and Yohan (John; Grk. Yoannes) continued to testify and proclaim the good message about the master in many villages around Shomron (Samaria) before they returned to Yerushalem (Jerusalem).

26 Then a messenger from Yahweh spoke to Filippos (Philip), “Start walking and head south on the road that goes downhill from Yerushalem to Azah (Gaza) through the wilderness.” 27 So he headed off, and on the road he came across an important official of the Kushi (Ethiopian) queen[fn] who was in charge of her treasury. This man had been in Yerushalem to worship God 28 and was returning home in his chariot. As he rode, he was reading the scroll of the prophet Yeshayah (Isaiah), 29 and the spirit told Filippos to approach him and stay by the chariot. 30 So Filippos ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading from the prophet Yeshayah and asked, “Do you know what it is that you’re reading about?”

31 “How could I know when I don’t have someone to guide me?” he answered, and so he invited Filippos to climb up and sit with him. 32 Now the particular passage that he was reading was this:

‘He was led away like a sheep being led to the slaughterhouse,

and stayed as silent as a lamb being shorn

so he never opened his mouth.

33 He was humiliated by a lack of justice.

Who can name his descendants,

because his life is being taken from the earth?’[ref]

34 “Now tell me,” said the official, “who was Yeshayah (Isaiah) talking about? Was he talking about himself or someone else?” 35 So Filippos started with that passage and explained the good message about Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) to him. 36 As they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the official asked, “Look, here’s some water. What would stop me from being immersed here?”

37 ◘ 38 So he commanded the driver to stop the chariot and they both climbed down, and Filippos (Philip) immersed the official in the water. 39 But as they came out of the water, Yahweh’s spirit snatched Filippos away and so the official never saw him again, but he continued on his journey very happy. 40 As for Filippos, he found himself at the town of Azotos, and as he passed through the coastal towns on the way to Kaisareia, he proclaimed the good message in each town.

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25 Therefore they indeed, having _testified and having _spoken the message of _the master, were _returning to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim), and they _were _evangelizing many villages of _the Samareitaʸs/(Shomrōn).

26 But a_messenger of_the_master spoke to Filippos saying:
Rise _up and be _going to the_south, to the road which coming _down from Hierousalaʸm to Gaza/(ˊAzzāh), this is the_wilderness road.

27 And having _risen _up, he _was _gone, and see, a_man, an_Aithiops/(Kūshiy) eunuch, official of _Kandakaʸ queen of_the_Aithiopss, who was over all the treasure of _her, who had _come going _to _prostrate in Hierousalaʸm,

28 and he _was returning and sitting in the chariot of _him, and was _reading the prophet Aʸsaias/(Yəshaˊ^yāh).

29 And the spirit said to_ the _Filippos:
Approach and be _joined _together to_ the this _chariot.

30 And the Filippos having _run _up, heard of _him reading Aʸsaias the prophet, and said:
Then surely you _are _knowing what you _are _reading?

31 And he said:
For/Because how wishfully I _might _be _able if not someone will _be _guiding me?
And he _appealed the to _Filippos having _gone _up to _sit _down with him.

32 And the passage of_ the _scripture which he _was _reading was this:
he _was _led As a_sheep to the_slaughter, and silent as a_lamb before the one having _shaved him, thus he _is_ not _opening _up the mouth of _him.

33 In the humiliation, the justice of _him was _taken _away, who will _be _describing the generation of _him?
Because the life of _him is _being _taken _away from the earth.

34 And the eunuch answering to_ the _Filippos said:
I _am _beseeching of _you concerning whom the prophet is _saying this?
Concerning himself or concerning someone other?

35 And the Filippos having _opened _up the mouth of _him, and having _begun from the this scripture, he _good _message _preached the Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) to _him.

36 And as they _were _going along the road, they _came to some water, and the eunuch is _saying:
Behold, water, what is _forbidding me to _be _immersed?

38 And he _commanded the chariot to _stop, and they_ both _came _down, to the water, the both Filippos and the eunuch, and he _immersed him.

39 But when they _went _up out _of the water, the_spirit of_the_master snatched the Filippos, and the eunuch not saw him no _longer, because/for he _was _going the way of _him rejoicing.

40 But Filippos was _found at Azōtos/(ʼAshdōd), and passing _through he _was _good _message _preaching to_ all _the cities, until the time him to _come to Kaisareia.

8:27 Some translations list the queen’s name as ‘Candace’, but that was the name of the series of queens, cf., Par’oh (Pharaoh) or Caesar which came to be used as a title for more than one person.

8:32-33: Isa 53:7-8 (LXX).

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Filippos immerses the Kushi official

Acts 8:25–40

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