Acts 8:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Accordingly Philip, running up to him, heard [the man] reading the prophet Isaiah and asked, Do you really understand what you are reading? American Standard Version (1901) And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? Common English Bible Running up to the carriage, Philip heard the man reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, “Do you really understand what you are reading?” Catholic Public Domain Version And Philip, hurrying, heard him reading from the prophet Isaiah, and he said, "Do you think that you understand what you are reading?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest? |
Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path.
But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”
Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, “Listen and understand:
“So when you see the desolating sacrilege, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
“But when you see the desolating sacrilege set up where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains;
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.
“You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is they that testify on my behalf.
So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship
He replied, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him.
Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them.
nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind, in order to instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
This calls for wisdom: let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number for a person. Its number is six hundred sixty-six.