25. They indeed, therefore, having testified fully, and spoken the word of the Lord, did turn back to Jerusalem; in many villages also of the Samaritans they did proclaim good news.
26. And a messenger of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, `Arise, and go on toward the south, on the way that is going down from Jerusalem to Gaza,' --this is desert.
27. And having arisen, he went on, and lo, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a man of rank, of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship to Jerusalem;
28. he was also returning, and is sitting on his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
29. And the Spirit said to Philip, `Go near, and be joined to this chariot;'
30. and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, `Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'
31. and he said, `Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.
32. And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: `As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;
33. in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation--who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.'