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26 Then the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, “Get up and head south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.”

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29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go and join up with that chariot.” 30 [a]Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

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Footnotes

  1. 8:30–34 Philip is brought alongside the carriage at the very moment when the Ethiopian is pondering the meaning of Is 53:7–8, a passage that Christianity, from its earliest origins, has applied to Jesus; cf. note on Acts 3:13.