Acts 8:31
World English Bible (WEB)
He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
In context
29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”
30 Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
31 He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
33 In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”
Acts 8:31 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” And he invited 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.