Acts 8:26-28

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

An Angel Sends Philip Down The Road To an Ethiopian Eunuch Reading Isaiah

²⁶Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, “Arise and go toward the south^[a] on the road going down from Jerusalem to Gaza”. This^[b] is a wilderness [road]. ²⁷And having arisen, he proceeded. And behold— there was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch^[c], a court-official of Candace^[d] (queen of the Ethiopians), who was over all her treasury, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, ²⁸and was returning, and sitting on his chariot^[e]. And he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

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Footnotes

Acts 8:26 toward the south. Or, at mid-day.
Acts 8:26 Or, this explanation may continue as part of the angel’s words.
Acts 8:27 That is, a castrated male.
Acts 8:27 This is a title, like Pharaoh, not a name.
Acts 8:28 That is, traveling chariot or carriage. Not a war or racing chariot.

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