A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.

The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip,

get up and head south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.

So he got up and set out.

Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace,

that is, the queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire

treasury, who had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning home. Seated in his chariot, he was

reading the prophet Isaiah. The spirit said to Philip, go and join up with that chariot. Philip

ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said,

Do you understand what you are reading?

He replied, how can I, unless someone instructs me?

So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.

This was the scripture passage he was reading.

Like a sheep, he was led to the slaughter,

and as a lamb before a cheer is silent.

So he opened not his mouth. In his humiliation, justice was denied him. Who will tell

of his prosperity? For his life is taken from the earth.

Then the eunuch said to Philip in reply,

I beg, about whom is the prophet saying this?

About himself or about someone else?

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with the scripture passage, he proclaimed Jesus to him.

As they traveled along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said,

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