Acts 8:28

The Ethiopian official, returning from worship in Jerusalem, was reading aloud from Isaiah in his chariot. His hunger for God's word set the stage for a divine appointment.

Cross-references · 17

• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
• Acts 28:25And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
• Isa 1:1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
• Prov 2:1–6My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
• John 5:39–40Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
• Josh 1:8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
• 2 Tim 3:15–17And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
• Ps 1:2–3But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
• Acts 17:11–12These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
• Luke 3:4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
• Deut 6:6–7And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
• Ps 119:99I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
• Luke 4:17And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
• Prov 8:33–34Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
• Deut 11:18–20Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
• Ps 119:111Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
• Deut 17:18–19And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

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