Acts 8:27

Good News Translation

So Philip got ready and went. Now an Ethiopian eunuch, who was an important official in charge of the treasury of the queen of Ethiopia, was on his way home. He had been to Jerusalem to worship God and was going back home in his carriage. As he rode along, he was reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah.

Cross References

1 Kings 10:1

The queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame, and she traveled to Jerusalem to test him with difficult questions.

Psalm 68:29

from your Temple in Jerusalem, where kings bring gifts to you.

Psalm 68:31

Ambassadors will come from Egypt; the Ethiopians will raise their hands in prayer to God.

Psalm 87:4

“I will include Egypt and Babylonia when I list the nations that obey me; the people of Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia I will number among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 18:7

A time is coming when the Lord Almighty will receive offerings from this land divided by rivers, this strong and powerful nation, this tall and smooth-skinned people, who are feared all over the world. They will come to Mount Zion, where the Lord Almighty is worshiped.

Isaiah 43:6

I will tell the north to let them go and the south not to hold them back. Let my people return from distant lands, from every part of the world.

Isaiah 45:14

The Lord says to Israel, “The wealth of Egypt and Ethiopia will be yours, and the tall men of Seba will be your slaves; they will follow you in chains. They will bow down to you and confess, ‘God is with you—he alone is God.

Isaiah 60:3

Nations will be drawn to your light, And kings to the dawning of your new day.

Isaiah 60:6

Great caravans of camels will come, from Midian and Ephah. They will come from Sheba, bringing gold and incense. People will tell the good news of what the Lord has done!

Isaiah 66:19

and will know that I am the one who punishes them. “But I will spare some of them and send them to the nations and the distant lands that have not heard of my fame or seen my greatness and power: to Spain, Libya, and Lydia, with its skilled archers, and to Tubal and Greece. Among these nations they will proclaim my greatness.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can people change the color of their skin, or a leopard remove its spots? If they could, then you that do nothing but evil could learn to do what is right.

Jeremiah 38:7

However, Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate.

Jeremiah 39:16

to tell Ebedmelech the Ethiopian that the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, had said, “Just as I said I would, I am going to bring upon this city destruction and not prosperity. And when this happens, you will be there to see it.

Zephaniah 3:10

Even from distant Ethiopia my scattered people will bring offerings to me.

Matthew 12:42

On the Judgment Day the Queen of Sheba will stand up and accuse you, because she traveled all the way from her country to listen to King Solomon's wise teaching; and I assure you that there is something here greater than Solomon!

John 12:20

Some Greeks were among those who had gone to Jerusalem to worship during the festival.

Deuteronomy 30:13

Nor is it on the other side of the ocean. You do not have to ask, ‘Who will go across the ocean and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and obey it?’

Hebrews 11:8

It was faith that made Abraham obey when God called him to go out to a country which God had promised to give him. He left his own country without knowing where he was going.