Acts 8:39

After the baptism the Spirit carried Philip away, and the eunuch continued home rejoicing. Salvation brings deep and lasting joy.

Cross-references · 26

• 1 Kgs 18:12It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.
• 2 Kgs 2:16They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, “Don’t send them.”
• Ezek 8:3He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
• Ezek 43:5The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
• Ezek 11:1Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
• Ezek 11:24The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
• Ezek 3:12–14Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, “Blessed be Yahweh’s glory from his place.”
• 2 Cor 12:2–4I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
• Mark 1:10Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
• Rom 15:10–13Again he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”
• Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
• Matt 13:44“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
• Matt 3:16Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
• Rom 5:2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Isa 35:1–2The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
• Isa 66:13–14As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
• Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
• Acts 8:8There was great joy in that city.
• Acts 13:52The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
• Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
• Jas 4:16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
• Jas 1:9–10But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
• Ps 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
• Ps 119:14I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
• Acts 16:34He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
• Isa 55:12–13For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

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