Acts Chapter 8 verse 38 Holy Bible
And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
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And he gave orders for the carriage to be stopped, and the two of them went down into the water, and Philip gave him baptism.
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And he commanded the chariot to stop. And they went down both to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptised him.
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And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
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He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
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and he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 38. - Both went down for went down both, A.V. Nothing can be more graphic than the simple narrative of this interesting and important baptism. Surely Luke must have heard it from Philip's own mouth (see Acts 21:8-10).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(38) They went down both into the water.--The Greek preposition might mean simply "unto the water," but the universality of immersion in the practice of the early Church supports the English version. The eunuch would lay aside his garments, descend chest-deep into the water, and be plunged under it "in the name of the Lord Jesus;" the only formula recognised in the Acts. (See Note on Acts 2:38.) So it was, in the half-playful language in which many of the Fathers delighted, that "the Ethiopian changed his skin" (Jeremiah 13:23).