Acts 8:30

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“So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.”

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BSBPD

“So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, `Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 8:30 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
  2. Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
  3. Matthew 13:19When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
  4. Matthew 13:23But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
  5. Matthew 13:51Have you understood all these things?” “Yes,” they answered.
  6. Matthew 15:10Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “Listen and understand.
  7. Matthew 24:15So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),
  8. Mark 13:14So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
  9. Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
  10. John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
  11. John 5:39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
  12. Acts 8:27So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
  13. 1 Corinthians 14:19But in the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.
  14. Ephesians 5:17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
  15. Revelation 13:18Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.

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