'Reading' in the Bible

Now he was returning home, seated in his chariot, and reading from the prophet Isaiah.

So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah out loud. Philip asked, "Do you understand what you're reading?"

This was the passage of Scripture he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, and like a lamb is silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders asked them, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

After reading the letter, the governor asked which province Paul was from. On learning that he was from Cilicia,