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8:26-40
But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying. "Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." Now this is desert. Rising up he went. And behold he came across an Ethiopian man who was a eunuch and a courtier of Queen Candace of Ethiopia. He was in charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship. He was returning (home) and sitting in his chariot reading the prophet
Isaiah.The Spirit said to Philip "Go up to him and keep company with him in his chariot." So running up Philip heard him reading Isaiah the prophet. He said "Do you know what you are reading?" He said "How indeed am I able to unless someone guides me? " And he asked Philip to get up and sit with him. Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this "As a sheep to slaughter he was led.
As a lamb before the shearer he is dumb and does not open his mouth. In the humiliation
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of judgment he was taken away. Who can describe his generation because it has taken away his life from the earth." And answering the eunuch Philip said. "I ask you. Who is the prophet talking about when he said this, about himself or about someone else?" And opening his mouth and beginning from this section of Scripture he told him about Jesus. As they were going along the way they came upon
some water. The eunuch said "Look there's some water" What's stopping me from being baptized now?" He ordered the chariot to stop and both of them went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch. And he baptized him. When they came up out of the water the Spirit of the Lord seized Philip and the Eunuch did not see him any more. He went on his way happy.
But Philip was found to be in Azotus. Passing through here he evangelized all the cities until he came to Caesarea.
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Phillip meets an Ethiopian 
