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29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, “Go near and join thyself to this chariot.”

30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Understandest thou what thou readest?”

31 And he said, “How can I, unless some man should guide me?” And he besought Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

32 The place of the Scripture from which he read was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb before his shearer is dumb, so opened He not His mouth.

33 In His humiliation, His judgment was taken away. And who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth.”

34 And the eunuch answered Philip and said, “I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? Of himself, or of some other man?”

35 Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same Scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.

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