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Acts 8:28 KJV
Acts · chapter 8 · verse 28
Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.Acts 8:28 · King James Version
Acts 8:28 in context
26And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
27And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
28Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
29Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
30And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- returninghypostrephōto turn back, to turn about, to returnG5290 →
- sittingkathēmaito sit down, seat one's self, to sit, be seated, of a place occupied, to have a fixed…G2521 →
- chariotharmaa chariot, of war chariots , chariotsG716 →
- chariotkaiand, also, even, indeed, butG2532 →
- EsaiasēsaiasIsaiah = " Jehovah s help" , a famous Hebrew prophet who prophesied in the reigns…G2268 →
- readanaginōskōto distinguish between, to recognise, to know accurately, to acknowledge, to readG314 →
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We have here the story of the conversion of an Ethiopian eunuch to the faith of Christ, by whom, we have reason to think, the knowledge of Christ was sent into that country where he lived, and that scripture fulfilled, Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands (one of the first of the nations) unto God, Psa 68:31. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 26-40