Acts 8:27

Modern English Version

So he rose up and went. And there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in command of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship.

Cross References

1 Kings 10:1

Now when the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame connected to the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.

Psalm 68:29

Because of Your temple at Jerusalem, kings will bring gifts to You.

Psalm 68:31

Envoys will come from Egypt; Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

Psalm 87:4

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush: “This one was born there.”

Isaiah 18:7

In that time a present shall be brought to the Lord of Hosts from a people tall and smooth, and from a people feared far and wide, a nation strong and oppressive, whose land the rivers have divided, to the place of the name of the Lord of Hosts, even Mount Zion.

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, “Give them up,” and to the south, “Do not keep them back. Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth,

Isaiah 45:14

Thus says the Lord: The products of Egypt and merchandise of Cush and of the Sabeans—men of stature— shall come over to you, and they shall be yours; they shall come after you; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down before you. They shall make supplication to you, saying, “Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.”

Isaiah 60:3

The nations shall come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising.

Isaiah 60:6

The multitude of camels shall cover your land, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and incense and shall bear good news of the praises of the Lord.

Isaiah 66:19

I will set a sign among them, and send from them survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud —who draw the bow—to Tubal, and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame or seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the nations.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Cushite change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

Jeremiah 38:7

Now Ebed-melek the Cushite, one of the eunuchs who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin.

Jeremiah 39:16

Go and speak to Ebed-melek the Cushite, saying: Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good. And they shall be accomplished in that day before you.

Zephaniah 3:10

From beyond the rivers of Cush My worshippers, the daughter of My dispersed ones, will bring My offering.

Matthew 12:42

The Queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

John 12:20

Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

Acts 8:28

He was returning, sitting in his chariot and reading the book of Isaiah the prophet.

Deuteronomy 30:13

It is not beyond the sea, so that you should say, “Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and do it?”

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he would later receive as an inheritance. He went out not knowing where he was going.