Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And Philip, running up to him, saw that he was reading Isaiah the prophet, and said to him, Is the sense of what you are reading clear to you?
New American Standard Bible
Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
King James Version
And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
Holman Bible
When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”
International Standard Version
So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah out loud. Philip asked, "Do you understand what you're reading?"
A Conservative Version
And after running near, Philip heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. And he said, Do thou also really understand the things that thou read?
American Standard Version
And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
Amplified
Philip ran up and heard the man reading the prophet Isaiah, and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
An Understandable Version
So, Philip ran over to it and [when he got near enough] he heard the Ethiopian eunuch reading from Isaiah the prophet and asked him, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Anderson New Testament
And Philip ran forward, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah; and he said: Do you understand what you are reading?
Common New Testament
So Philip ran up to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Daniel Mace New Testament
Philip ran to him, and hearing him read the prophet Esaias, said, do you understand what you read?
Darby Translation
And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?
Godbey New Testament
And Philip running forth, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said; Whether do you understand what you are reading?
Goodspeed New Testament
Philip ran up and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and he said to him, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
John Wesley New Testament
And Philip running to him, heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
Julia Smith Translation
And Philip running near, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and he said, Truly knowest thou what thou readest?
King James 2000
And Philip ran to him, and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Do you understand what you read?
Lexham Expanded Bible
So Philip ran up to [it] [and] heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, "So then, do you understand what you are reading?"
Modern King James verseion
And Philip ran there to him and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Do you indeed understand what you are reading?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Philip ran to him, and heard him read Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Understandest thou what thou readest?"
Moffatt New Testament
When Philip ran up, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. "Do you really understand what you are reading?"
Montgomery New Testament
So Philip ran up, and heard him reading Isaiah the Prophet, and said to him. "Do you understand what you are reading?"
NET Bible
So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked him, "Do you understand what you're reading?"
New Heart English Bible
Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Noyes New Testament
And Philip ran up, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Well, but dost thou understand what thou art reading?
Sawyer New Testament
And Philip running forward heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and he said, Do you really understand what you read?
The Emphasized Bible
And, running near, Philip heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said - Dost thou, then, understand what thou art reading?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Then Philip running up to him, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah; and he said, Well! but dost thou understand what thou art reading?
Twentieth Century New Testament
So Philip ran up, and he heard the Abyssinian reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked.
Webster
And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
Weymouth New Testament
So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked.
Williams New Testament
Then Philip ran up and listened to him reading the prophet Isaiah, and he asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
World English Bible
Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Worrell New Testament
And Philip, having run near, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you, then, understand what you are reading?"
Worsley New Testament
heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou understand what thou readest?
Youngs Literal Translation
and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, 'Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 8:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Philip And The Ethiopian Eunuch
29 And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near, and get on his carriage. 30 And Philip, running up to him, saw that he was reading Isaiah the prophet, and said to him, Is the sense of what you are reading clear to you? 31 And he said, How is that possible when I have no guide? And he made Philip get up by his side.
Cross References
Psalm 119:32
I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
Matthew 13:19
When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.
Matthew 13:23
And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.
Matthew 13:51
Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes.
Matthew 15:10
And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:
Matthew 24:15
When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet (let this be clear to the reader),
Mark 13:14
But when you see the unclean thing which makes destruction, in the place where it has no right to be (let this be clear to the reader), then let those who are in Judaea go quickly to the mountains:
Luke 24:44-45
And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.
John 4:34
Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
John 5:39
You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
Acts 8:27
And he went and there was a man of Ethiopia, a servant of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, and controller of all her property, who had come up to Jerusalem for worship;
1 Corinthians 14:19
But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.
Ephesians 5:17
For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.
Revelation 13:18
Here is wisdom. He who has knowledge let him get the number of the beast; because it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty-six.