New English Translation

Acts 8:30-38 New English Translation (NET)

30. So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked him, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

31. The man replied, “How in the world can I, unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

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

33. In humiliation justice was taken from him.Who can describe his posterity?For his life was taken away from the earth.”

34. Then the eunuch said to Philip, “Please tell me, who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else?”

35. So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.

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 from being baptized?”

38. So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.