WPNT(i)
26 Then an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, “Get up and go south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza; it is desolate.”
27 So he got up and went; and there, a man, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court-official of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury, who had come worshipping to Jerusalem
28 —he was returning, sitting in his chariot and reading aloud the prophet Isaiah.
29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go forward and join this chariot.”
30 So running up Philip heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said, “Do you really understand what you are reading?”
31 So he said, “Well how can I, unless someone guides me?” And he urged Philip to come up and sit with him.
32 Now the portion of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so He does not open His mouth.
33 In His humiliation His justice was removed, and who will recount His generation? Because His life is removed from the earth.”
34 So continuing the eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?”
35 So opening his mouth and beginning from this Scripture, Philip preached Jesus to him.
36 Now as they were going down the road they came upon some water, and the eunuch said: “Look, water! What is keeping me from being baptized?”
37 - - - 38 So he ordered the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
39 Now when they came up out of the water, Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, because he went on his way rejoicing.
40 Philip was found at Azotus, and as he passed through he evangelized all the towns until he came to Caesarea.