Acts 8:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁶ As they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ And as they continued along on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch exclaimed, See, [here is] water! What is to hinder my being baptized?

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ And as they went on the way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch saith, Behold, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?

Common English Bible

³⁶ As they went down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look! Water! What would keep me from being baptized?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ And while they were going along the way, they arrived at a certain water source. And the eunuch said: "There is water. What would prevent me from being baptized?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁶ 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?

Acts 8:36 Cross References

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Matthew 3:6

and they were baptized by him in the River Jordan, confessing their sins.

John 3:23

John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim because water was abundant there, and people kept coming and were being baptized.

John 3:5

Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.

Acts 10:47

“Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

1 John 5:6

This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth.