Acts 21:8 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁸ The next day we left there and went on to Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip the missionary, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him.

⁵ This plan met the approval of the whole body, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the holy Spirit, with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, who had been a convert to Judaism.

⁵ Philip reached the city of Samaria, and proclaimed the Christ to them. ⁶ When the people heard Philip and saw the signs that he showed they were all interested in what he had to say, ⁷ for with loud cries foul spirits came out of many who had been possessed by them, and many paralytics and lame people were cured. ⁸ So there was great rejoicing in that city. ⁹ There was a man named Simon in the town, who had been amazing the Samaritan people by practicing magic there, and who made great pretensions. ¹⁰ Everyone there, high and low, made much of him, and said, "He must be what is known as the Great Power of God!" ¹¹ They made much of him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. ¹² But when they believed Philip's message of the good news of the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, men and women alike accepted baptism. ¹³ Even Simon himself believed and after his baptism devoted himself to Philip, and he was amazed at seeing such signs and great wonders taking place.

²⁶ But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south, by the road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza." (The town is now deserted.) ²⁷ So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a member of the court of Candace, queen of Ethiopia, her chief treasurer, who had come up to Jerusalem to worship, ²⁸ and was on his way home. He was sitting in his car, reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹ Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and stay by that car." ³⁰ Philip ran up and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and he said to him, "Do you understand what you are reading?" ³¹ "Why, how can I," he answered, "unless someone explains it to me?" And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him. ³² This was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, And just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, He does not open his mouth. ³³ His sentence ended in his humiliation. Who will tell the story of his posterity? For his life is perished from the earth." ³⁴ "Tell me, of whom is the prophet speaking?" said the eunuch to Philip, "Of himself, or of someone else?" ³⁵ Then Philip began, and starting from this passage, he told him the good news about Jesus. ³⁶ As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?" ³⁷ OMITTED TEXT ³⁸ So he ordered the car to stop, and Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. ³⁹ When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord hurried Philip away, and the eunuch saw nothing more of him. Full of joy, he went on with his journey, ⁴⁰ while Philip found himself at Ashdod and went on telling the good news in all the towns all the way to Caesarea.

³⁰ When the brothers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.

¹ There was at Caesarea a man named Cornelius, a captain in what was known as the Italian regiment.

¹⁰ As soon as he had this vision, we made efforts to get on to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to tell them the good news.

¹³ On the Sabbath we went outside the gates, to the bank of the river where we supposed there was a praying place, and we sat down and talked with the women who gathered there.

¹⁶ Once as we were on our way to the praying place a slave-girl met us who had the gift of ventriloquism, and made her masters a great deal of money by her fortune-telling.

²² When he reached Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and paid his respects to the church, and then went on to Antioch.

⁶ while we sailed from Philippi after the festival of Unleavened Bread, and joined them at Troas five days later. There we stayed a week.

¹³ We had already gone on board the ship and sailed for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there, for that was the arrangement he had made, as he intended to travel there by land.

²³ Then he called in two of his officers and said to them, "Get two hundred men ready to march to Caesarea, with seventy mounted men and two hundred spear-men, by nine o'clock tonight."

¹ When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were turned over to an officer of the Imperial regiment, named Julius.

¹¹ Three months later, we sailed on an Alexandrian ship named the Dioscuri, which had wintered at the island.

¹⁶ When we reached Rome, Paul was given permission to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

¹¹ And he has given us some men as apostles, some as prophets, some as missionaries, some as pastors and teachers,

⁵ But you must always be composed; do not shrink from hardship; do your work as a missionary, and your whole duty as a minister.