Acts 8:30

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Summary

Acts 8:30

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

Ran thither

Understandest

Bible References

Ran thither

So he got up and went. There he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship,

I run along the path of your commands, for you enable me to do so.

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

Understandest

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.

Then he called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand.

"So when you see the abomination of desolation -- spoken about by Daniel the prophet -- standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

"But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord's will is.

This calls for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the beast's number, for it is man's number, and his number is 666.