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Acts 8:29
And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near, and get on his carriage.
Acts 8:29 · Bible in Basic English
Acts 8:29 in other translations
Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.”
The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”
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In context
26 But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land.
27 And he went and there was a man of Ethiopia, a servant of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, and controller of all her property, who had come up to Jerusalem for worship;
28 He was going back, seated in his carriage, and was reading the book of the prophet Isaiah.
29 And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near, and get on his carriage.
30 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?
31 And he said, How is that possible when I have no guide? And he made Philip get up by his side.
32 Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound:
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