Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked.
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?
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?
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?
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 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go and enter that chariot." 30 So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked. 31 "Why, how can I," replied the eunuch, "unless some one explains it to me?" And he earnestly invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
Cross References
Matthew 13:19
When a man hears the Message concerning the Kingdom and does not understand it, the Evil one comes and catches away what has been sown in his heart. This is he who has received the seed by the road-side.
Matthew 13:23
But he who has received the seed on good ground is he who hears and understands. Such hearers give a return, and yield one a hundred for one, another sixty, another thirty.")
Matthew 13:51
"Have you understood all this?" He asked. "Yes," they said.
Matthew 15:10
Then, when He had called the people to Him, Jesus said, "Hear and understand.
Matthew 24:15
"When you have seen (to use the language of the Prophet Daniel)
Mark 13:14
"As soon, however, as you see the Abomination of Desolation standing where he ought not" --let the reader observe these words--"then let those in Judaea escape to the hills;
Luke 24:44-45
And He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you--that everything must be fulfilled that is written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me."
John 4:34
"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.
John 5:39
"You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;
Acts 8:27
Upon this he rose and went. Now, as it happened, an Ethiopian eunuch who was in a position of high authority with Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, as her treasurer, had visited Jerusalem to worship there,
1 Corinthians 14:19
but in the Church I would rather speak five words with my understanding--so as to instruct others also--than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Ephesians 5:17
On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.
Revelation 13:18
Here is scope for ingenuity. Let people of shrewd intelligence calculate the number of the Wild Beast; for it indicates a certain man, and his number is 666.