Acts 8:30

So Philip ran up ¹  to it ²  and heard the man ³  reading Isaiah the prophet. He ⁴  asked him, ⁵  “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

Ps 119:32; Ec 9:10; Mt 13:19,23,51; Mt 15:10; Mt 24:15; Mr 13:14; Lu 24:44-45; Joh 4:34; Joh 5:39; Ac 8:27; 1Co 14:19; Eph 5:17; Re 13:18

¹ tn The participle προσδραμών (prosdramwn) is regarded as attendant circumstance.

² tn The words “to it” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

³ tn Grk “heard him”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

⁵ tn Grk “he said”; but since what follows is a question, it is better English style to translate the introduction to the question “he asked him.”