Acts 8:29-39

²⁹Then the sprete sayde vnto Phillip: Goo neare and ioyne thy selfe to yonder charet.

³⁰And Philip ranne to him and hearde him rede the prophet Esayas and sayde: Vnderstondest thou what thou redest?

³¹And he sayd: how can I except I had a gyde? And he desyred Philip that he wold come vp and sit with him.

³²The tenoure of the scripture which he redde was this. He was ledde as a shepe to be slayne: and lyke a lambe dome before his sherer so opened he not his mouth.

³³Because of his humblenes he was not estemed: who shall declare his generacion? for his lyfe is taken from the erthe.

³⁴The chamberlayne answered Philip and sayde: I praye the of whom speaketh the Prophet this? of him selfe or of some other man?

³⁵And Philip opened his mouth and beganne at the same scripture and preached vnto him Iesus.

³⁶And as they went on their waye they came vnto a certayne water and the chamberlayne sayde: Se here is water what shall let me to be baptised?

³⁷Philip sayde vnto him: Yf thou beleve with all thyne hert thou mayst. He answered and sayde: I beleve that Iesus Christe is the sonne of God.

³⁸And he commaunded the charet to stonde still. And they went doune bothe into the water: bothe Philip and also the chamberlayne and he baptised him.

³⁹And assone as they were come out of the water the sprete of the lorde caught awaye Philip that the chamberlayne sawe him no moore. And he wet on his waye reioysinge: