Acts 8:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

Acts 8:31 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 10:14
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Isaiah 29:18-19
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. …
Psalms 73:16-17
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; …
Proverbs 30:2-3
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. …
Psalms 25:8-9
Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 26-40)

We have here the story of the conversion of an Ethiopian eunuch to the faith of Christ, by whom, we have reason to think, the knowledge of Christ was sent into that country where he lived, and that scripture fulfilled, Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands (one of the first of the nations) unto God, Ps. 68:31. I. Philip the evangelist is directed into the road where he would meet with this Eth…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

29-31. the Spirit said--by an unmistakable voice within, as in Ac 10:19; 16:6, 7. go near and join this chariot--This would reveal to Philip the hitherto unknown object of his journey, and encourage him to expect something.