⁵ Now it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, that there was the woman whose son he had ^(A)restored to life, appealing to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”

³⁵ He returned and walked back and forth in the house, and again went up ^(A)and stretched himself out on him; then ^(B)the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

²⁹ Are not two ^(A)sparrows sold for a ^[a]copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. ^30 (B)But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

God’s Everlasting Love

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? ^(A)If God is for us, who can be against us?

²⁷ So he arose and went. And behold, ^(A)a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and ^(B)had come to Jerusalem to worship, ²⁸ was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet. ²⁹ Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and overtake this chariot.”

³⁰ So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

³¹ And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. ³² The place in the Scripture which he read was this:

³⁴ So the eunuch answered Philip and said, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?” ³⁵ Then Philip opened his mouth, ^(G)and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. ³⁶ Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. ^(H)What hinders me from being baptized?”

^37 [a]Then Philip said, ^(I)“If you believe with all your heart, you may.”

And he answered and said, ^(J)“I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”

³⁸ So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. ³⁹ Now when they came up out of the water, ^(K)the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing. ⁴⁰ But Philip was found at ^[b]Azotus. And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to ^(L)Caesarea.

¹¹ I returned ^(A)and saw under the sun that—

A Song of God’s Majesty and Love

^(A)A Praise of David.

¹¹ So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”

¹² Afterward Mordecai went back to the king’s gate. But Haman ^(A)hurried to his house, mourning ^(B)and with his head covered.