Bible verses about "ethiopia" | Goodspeed

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,

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,