Lexham English Bible

Acts 8:27-32 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

27. And he got up and went, and behold, there was a man, an Ethiopian eunuch (a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury) who had come to worship in Jerusalem

28. and was returning and sitting in his chariot, and reading aloud the prophet Isaiah.

29. And the Spirit said to Philip, “Approach and join this chariot.”

30. So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, “So then, do you understand what you are reading?”

31. And he said, “So how could I, unless someone will guide me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

32. Now the passage of scripture that he was reading aloud was this: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.