31"How can I," he said, "unless someone explains it to me?" So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.


In Context

28 and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the book of Isaiah the prophet.

29 The Spirit told Philip, "Go to that chariot and stay near it."

30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. "Do you understand what you are reading?" Philip asked.

31 "How can I," he said, "unless someone explains it to me?" So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

32 The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: "He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth."

Acts 8:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:31And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:31Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:31And he said, How can I, except some one shall guide me? And he besought Philip to come up and sit with him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:31And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:31And he said, How can I, except some one shall guide me? And he besought Philip to come up and sit with him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:31And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up, and sit with him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:31He said, |How can I, unless someone explains it to me?| He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:31and 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:31And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.