Acts 8:27
25 And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.
26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
28 and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.
29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
- KJV
- And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- And he arose and went: and behold, 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;
- DARBY
- And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,
- BLB
- And having risen up, he went. And behold, a man, an Ethiopian eunuch, a potentate of Kandake, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
- ÅB
- Han sto da opp og gikk dit; og se, der var en etioper, en hoffmann, en høy embedsmann hos Kandake, etiopernes dronning, en som var satt over hele hennes skatt; han var kommet til Jerusalem for å tilbe,
- OTB
- Så han sto opp og dro. Det var en etiopisk evnukk, en hoffmann hos Kandake, dronningen av etiopierne, som hadde ansvar for alle hennes skatter. Han hadde kommet til Jerusalem for å tilbe,
- B1930
- Han stod da op og gikk dit; og se, der var en etioper, en hoffmann, en høi embedsmann hos Kandake, etiopernes dronning, en som var satt over hele hennes skatt; han var kommet til Jerusalem for å tilbede,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Zephaniah 3:10
From beyond the rivers of Cush My worshipers, My scattered people, will bring Me an offering.
Read in contextPsalms 68:31
Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.
Read in contextIsaiah 56:3–8
Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
Read in contextJeremiah 38:7
Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
Read in contextPsalms 87:4
“I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me— along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush — when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”
Read in context1 Kings 8:41–43
And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—
Read in contextJohn 12:20
Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.
Read in contextMatthew 12:42
The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
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