Acts 8:32 NLT,NIV,ESV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:1-40

The Expansion of The Church As A Result of Persecution (8:1-12:25). How thrilled the Apostles must have been at this stage at the progress of the church. Through the first few years of the infant church they had suffered a few minor discomforts, but they had come through those triumphantly, and the church had continued to grow and grow. Jerusalem was ‘filled with their teaching’ and the work of caring for all the true people of God was now being successfully administered. And then came the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:26-39

The Ministry of Philip To The Ethiopian Eunuch (8:26-39). Meanwhile God was now satisfied that the Samaritan church was sufficiently equipped to carry on and He calls Philip elsewhere to where there is a lonely searching soul. It was to a man, and a very important one, who had been visiting Jerusalem but was still unsatisfied. He held a high position under the queen of ‘Ethiopia’ (Nubia), and was at the minimum a God-fearer, a man who respected the Jewish Law and, without being ready to be... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:32-33

‘Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he opens not his mouth. In his humiliation his judgment was taken away. His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.” ’ The passage he was reading came from Isaiah 53:0 LXX, the main chapter about the Suffering Servant. To seek, as some have done, to rid this quotation of its sacrificial significance is frankly... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:26-40

Acts 8:26-Matthew : . Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch.— Philip appears again; we are not told where, but the instruction given him by the angel shows that he was not at Jerusalem; he is to go southward ( mg. “ at noon” ; not suitable for a long journey) to the Jerusalem-Gaza road. That the road was forsaken was in its favour in this instance. Arrived at the junction of the two roads, from Tyre and from Jerusalem, Philip sees a chariot; it contains an Ethiopian eunuch, the treasurer at an... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 8:32

God’s providence is remarkable, that the eunuch should be reading this very scripture, which contains such fundamental truths, and which he had most need for to be informed of. The words referred unto are in Isaiah 53:7. Whether read in the Hebrew tongue, which the eunuch might have learned of many Jews living in Ethiopia; or whether they were read out of the translation of the Seventy, which was then in common use, is not so necessary an inquiry; both being to the same intent and purpose.... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 8:26-40

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 8:18. And when Simon saw.—Most likely through hearing the baptised speak with tongues. He offered them money.—From Simon’s name and proposal arose the expression “Simony” for the purchase of spiritual offices. Inde Simoniœ vocabulum (Bengel).Acts 8:19. To me also.—I.e., “as well as to you”; not “as well as to others,” “since no example of such transfer was known to him” (Hackett).Acts 8:20. Thy money perish with thee.—Lit., thy silver with thyself be for destruction.... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Acts 8:30-33

Understandest Thou What Thou Readest? A Sermon Delivered on Lord's-Day Evening, May 11th, 1884, by C. H. SPURGEON, At Exeter-Hall. "And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 8:1-40

Chapter 8We are introduced now to one of the chief persecutors. A zealous young Jew, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, whose name is Saul. And he was standing by, consenting to the death of Stephen, holding the coats of the fellows who were throwing the stones. No doubt, cheering them on. But I have no doubt, that what Stephen's death and his reaction to it had such a great effect on Paul that he never got away from it. And I believe that it was ultimately the background of Paul's conversion. For... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 8:1-40

Acts 8:1 . At that time there was a great persecution against the church. With regard to this very tremendous storm which suddenly burst on the infant church, Cardinal Baronius, in his Ecclesiastical Annals, gives us an extract from a discourse of Dorotheus, a priest of Antioch, written in the second century, who states that two thousand persons were at this time massacred in Jerusalem, and in Judea; and that their bodies were mangled, and exposed in the fields to be devoured by vultures... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:26-39

Acts 8:26-39And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go.Man versus angelWhy didn’t the angel go himself? Because this was a mission where a man was worth more than an angel. In the Lord’s plan of salvation there is a place for redeemed sinners as witnesses for Christ, to do a work that no angel could accomplish. It is not for us to say that God could have had any better plan than this. As the plan stands, the man is needed for its prosecution. The best that an angel can... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:1-40

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:26-39

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:32-33

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 8:26-40

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 8:32

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 8:26-40

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Acts 8:30-33

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Acts 8:1-40

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Acts 8:1-40

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 8:26-39

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