Acts Chapter 8 verse 30 Holy Bible
And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
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And Philip, running up to him, saw that he was reading Isaiah the prophet, and said to him, Is the sense of what you are reading clear to you?
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And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?
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And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
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Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
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and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, `Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - Ran for ran thither, A.V.; reading-Isaiah the prophet for read the prophet Esaias, A.V. and T.R. Heard him. He was reading aloud. In Hebrew, the word for "to read" (קָרָא) means "to call," "to proclaim aloud." Hence the keri, that which is read, as distinguished from the cethib, that which is written. Reading Isaiah the prophet. The same providence which sent Philip to meet him in the desert doubtless directed his reading to the fifty-third chapter of the great evangelical prophet.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) Understandest thou what thou readest?--The Greek play upon the word for understand (Ginoskein) and read (Anaginoskein) cannot well be produced in English, but is worth noting as parallel to a like play in the well-known saying of the Emperor Julian (Anegnon; egnon; kategnon)--"I read; I understood; I condemned."
