Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring My Words upon this city for evil and not for good. And they shall be done in that day before you.

For I will give you an escape, to deliver you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be as a prize to you, because you have put your trust in Me, says Jehovah.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall hurry with gifts in her hands unto God.

And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven.

But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.

Then Jesus answered and said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

And likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side.

So he went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

So which of these three do you suppose was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?

And they will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.

And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.

So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of high office under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to do homage,

Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join yourself to this chariot.

And he said, How can I, unless someone guides me? And he summoned Philip to come up and sit with him.

In His humiliation His judgment was taken away, and who will declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth.

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.

Then Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, it is lawful. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.

(After Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the officials, the rulers of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem.)

the rulers of Judah, and the rulers of Jerusalem, the officials, and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf;

And he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the mighty ones of prominence of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a commander of the guard named Irijah was there, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are defecting to the Chaldeans.

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his place.

when I went out to the gate through the city, when I set up my seat in the open square.

the rulers refrained from talking, and put their hand on their mouth;

When the ear heard, it blessed me, and when the eye saw, it bore witness to me;

The blessing of the dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

I broke the fangs of the perverse, and flung out the prey from his teeth.

They hate him who rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.