Acts 8:27 Cross References - Mace

²⁷ accordingly he departed: and met a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, and was her high-treasurer: he had been at Jerusalem, to perform the duties of a proselyte,

⁴² the queen of the south shall rise up at the day of judgement against this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the remote parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now a greater than Solomon is here.

² saying, go to yonder village, and you will immediately find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them to me. ³ if any man oppose you, say, the Lord wants them; and then he will send them. ⁴ all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, ⁵ saying, " tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting on an ass, even a colt, the fole of an ass." ⁶ and the disciples went, and having done as Jesus commanded them,

¹³ upon which he dispatch'd two of his disciples, and said to them: go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water; follow him. ¹⁴ and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house: "thus saith our master; where is the chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?" ¹⁵ and he will shew you a large upper room ready furnished: there make preparation for us. ¹⁶ his disciples therefore went away, and being come into the city, they found every thing, as he had told them; and they prepared the paschal lamb.

⁵ upon which his mother bid the servants do whatever he should order. ⁶ now there were six cisterns of stone plac'd there for the use of the Jews in their purifications, containing two or three firkins a-piece. ⁷ these Jesus order'd the waiters to fill with water. so they filled them up to the brim. ⁸ now fill out, said he, and carry it to the steward of the feast, which accordingly they did.

²⁰ In the mean time, among the rest that came to worship at the feast,

⁸ 'Twas by faith that he who was named Abraham, showed his obedience in travelling to a foreign country, which he was afterwards to inherit; and began his journey without knowing where he was going.