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.


In Context

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.'

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:31"How can I," he said, "unless someone explains it to me?" So he invited Philip to 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 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.