Acts 8:27 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁷ 5 Then Philip, opening his mouth, and beginning at this scripture, preached unto him Jesus.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ So he got up and went. And behold, an Ethiopian, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure, had come to Jerusalem to worship.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ And he arose and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship;

Common English Bible

²⁷ So he did. Meanwhile, an Ethiopian man was on his way home from Jerusalem, where he had come to worship. He was a eunuch and an official responsible for the entire treasury of Candace. (Candace is the title given to the Ethiopian queen.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And rising up, he went. And behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, powerful under Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures, had arrived in Jerusalem to worship.

Acts 8:27 Cross References

1 Kings 10:1

And she said to the king: The report is true, which I heard in my own country,

Psalm 68:29

Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. SAVE me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.

Psalm 68:31

I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Psalm 87:4

I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

Isaiah 18:7

The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook into the river shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish away.

Isaiah 43:6

4 Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their bars, and the Chaldeans glorying in their ships.

Isaiah 45:14

2 Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 60:3

1 And thy gates shall be open continually: they shall not be shut day nor night, that the strength of the Gentiles may be brought to thee, and their kings may be brought.

Isaiah 60:6

4 And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 66:19

And which came to him in the days of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, unto the end of the eleventh year of Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda, even unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in the fifth month.

Jeremiah 13:23

For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandmen were confounded, they covered their heads.

Jeremiah 38:7

5 Then Jeremias said to Sedecias: If I shall declare it to thee, wilt thou not put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken to me.

Jeremiah 39:16

And Jeremias went to Godolias the son of Ahicam to Masphath: and dwelt with him in the midst of the people that were left in the land.

Zephaniah 3:10

8 The triflers that were departed from the law, I will gather together, because they were of thee: that thou mayest no more suffer reproach for them.

Matthew 12:42

0 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

John 12:20

8 Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came from heaven: I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Acts 8:28

6 And as they went on their way, they came to a certain water; and the eunuch said: See, here is water: what doth hinder me from being baptized?

Deuteronomy 30:13

8 I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan, and shalt go in to possess it.

Hebrews 11:8

7 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered Isaac: and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten son;