Philip Baptises the Eunuch

<p>PHILIP AND THE EUNUCH – ACTS 8:26-40 The story of Acts chapter eight concerning Philip’s ministry in Samaria and the account of all the people there receiving the power of the Holy Spirit continues to unfold in a most powerful way.</p> <p>Acts 8:26. The angel of the Lord then spoke to Philip and told him to travel south on the road that goes from Jerusalem down to the desert region of Gaza. When he got there, he saw an Ethiopian man, a eunuch who was a high official of Candace the queen of Ethiopia, and who managed her treasury. He had been to Jerusalem to worship, and He was sitting in his chariot on his way home, reading Isaiah the prophet.  29. The Holy Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go over and join that man sitting in the chariot. Philip went directly to the man and heard him reading out loud from the book of Isaiah. He asked him if he understood what it was that he was reading. The man said ’The only way I can understand this is if somebody explains it to me.’ He asked Philip to come up and sit next to him. The passage of Scripture that he was reading was “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so He opened not His mouth. In His humiliation His justice was taken away, and who will declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth.” (Isaiah 53:7ff)</p> <p>34. The eunuch said to Philip ‘Who is Isaiah speaking about here, is it himself, or some other man? Philip began to share with the man from that very passage of Scripture, that it was Jesus who was being spoken about, and he preached about Jesus to him.  As they continued to travel, they came to a watering place and the eunuch said to Philip ‘Here is some water, what is stopping me from being baptised?’ Philip replied, ‘If you believe with all your heart, nothing is stopping you.’ The eunuch said ‘I believe that Jesus is the Son of God’ Then he commanded the drivers to stop the chariot and he and Philip went down into the water together and Philip baptised him.</p> <p>39. When they came up out of the water