28he was also returning, and is sitting on his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.


In Context

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?'

Acts 8:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:28Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:28and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the book of Isaiah the prophet.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:28And he was returning, sitting in this chariot, and reading Isaias the prophet.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:28and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:28was returning and sitting in his chariot: and he was reading the prophet Esaias.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:28Was returning; and sitting in his chariot, read Isaiah the prophet.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:28and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:28He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:28Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.