Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear.
Acts 8:29 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to this chariot and join it.” Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the [Holy] Spirit said to Philip, Go forward and join yourself to this chariot. American Standard Version (1901) And the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. Common English Bible The Spirit told Philip, “Approach this carriage and stay with it.” Catholic Public Domain Version Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Draw near and join yourself to this chariot." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Spirit said to Philip: Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. |
Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear.
Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth.”
While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Look, three men are searching for you.
The Spirit told me to go with them and not to make a distinction between them and us. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
He came to us and took Paul's belt, bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’ ”
So they disagreed with each other; and as they were leaving, Paul made one further statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah,
Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.)
and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,