for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch *said, “Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?”

And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch no longer saw him, but went on his way rejoicing.

“Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

But Paul *said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.