Acts 8:29-39

²⁹Then the Holy Spirit said to Philip, “Catch up with that wagon and walk along beside it.”

³⁰So Philip ran up close to the wagon and he heard that man reading from Isaiah’s book. Philip asked him, “Can you understand that book you are reading?”

³¹The Ethiopian man said, “No, I don’t understand it. I need somebody to help me.” Then he asked Philip to climb up into the wagon and sit beside him.

³²He was reading this part of God’s book, “Some people led him away to kill him, just like men lead a sheep away to kill it, but he was quiet and didn’t say anything. You know the way a sheep is quiet and doesn’t make a noise while men cut off all its wool, well, he was quiet, just like that.

³³Men shamed him, and they didn’t give him a proper trial in court. Then they killed him, so he can’t have any kids.”

³⁴And the Ethiopian man said to Philip, “Who was Isaiah talking about? Was he talking about himself or somebody else?”

³⁵Then Philip told him the meaning of those words in God’s book. And from there he kept on talking and told that Ethiopian man the good news about Jesus.

³⁶They kept going along the road and came to some water. The Ethiopian man said, “Look. There is some water. Can you baptise me now?”

³⁸So he told the driver of the wagon to stop. That man and Philip went down into the water, and Philip baptised him.

³⁹After they came up out of the water the Holy Spirit quickly took Philip away. The Ethiopian man never saw him again, but he was really happy and he kept going on his way home.