and sit with him.
008:032 The passage of Scripture which he was reading was this:
"Like a sheep He was led to slaughter, and just as a lamb
before its shearer is dumb so He opened not His mouth.
008:033 In His humiliation justice was denied Him. Who will make
known His posterity? For He is destroyed from among men."
008:034 "Pray, of whom is the Prophet speaking?" inquired the eunuch;
"of himself or of some one else?"
008:035 Then Philip began to speak, and, commencing with that same
portion of Scripture, told him the Good News about Jesus.
008:036 So they proceeded on their way till they came to some water;
and the eunuch exclaimed, "See, here is water; what is there
to prevent my being baptized?"
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008:038 So he stopped the chariot; and both of them--Philip and the eunuch--
went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
008:039 But no sooner had they come up out of the water than the Spirit of
the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again.
With a glad heart he resumed his journey;
008:040 but Philip found himself at Ashdod. Then visiting town
after town he everywhere made known the Good News until
he reached Caesarea.
009:001 Now Saul, whose every breath was a threat of destruction
for the disciples of the Lord,
009:002 went to the High Priest and begged from him letters addressed
to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that if he found
any believers there, either men or women, he might bring them
in chains to Jerusalem.
009:003 But on the journey, as he was getting near Damascus,
suddenly there flashed round him a light from Heaven;