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Acts 8:27-35 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

27. And rising up, he went. And behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, powerful under Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures, had arrived in Jerusalem to worship.

28. And while returning, he was sitting upon his chariot and reading from the prophet Isaiah.

29. Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Draw near and join yourself to this chariot."

30. And Philip, hurrying, heard him reading from the prophet Isaiah, and he said, "Do you think that you understand what you are reading?"

31. And he said, "But how can I, unless someone will have revealed it to me?" And he asked Philip to climb up and sit with him.

32. Now the place in Scripture that he was reading was this: "Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter. And like a lamb silent before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth.

33. He endured his judgment with humility. Who of his generation shall describe how his life was taken away from the earth?"

34. Then the eunuch responded to Philip, saying: "I beg you, about whom is the prophet saying this? About himself, or about someone else?"

35. Then Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from this Scripture, evangelized Jesus to him.

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