Acts 8:31
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
In context
29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.”
30 So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
32 The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
33 In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”
Acts 8:31 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And he said, How can I, except some one shall guide me? And he besought Philip to come up and sit with him.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and he said, 'Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.