Acts 8:37
And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
KJV
Dixit autem Philippus : Si credis ex toto corde, licet. Et respondens ait : Credo Filium Dei esse Jesum Christum.
Vulgate
And Philip said: If thou believest with all thy heart, thou mayest. And he answering, said: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Douay-Rheims
And Philip said, `If thou dost believe out of all the heart, it is lawful;' and he answering said, `I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God;'
YLT
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The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism. This entire verse is absent from the earliest and best manuscripts and appears to be a later Western interpolation, possibly reflecting early baptismal liturgy. It provides an explicit confession that many felt was needed before the baptism described in verse 38. Irenaeus (c. 180) appears to know the text, suggesting very early origin even if not originally in Acts.
- Acts 8:36 flows directly to 8:38: Philip and the eunuch proceed to baptism without the confession. — P45; P74; Codex Sinaiticus (01/ℵ); Codex Vaticanus (03/B); Codex Alexandrinus (02/A); Most Alexandrian MSS
- εἶπεν δὲ ὁ Φίλιππος· Εἰ πιστεύεις ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας, ἔξεστιν. ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ εἶπεν· Πιστεύω τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ εἶναι τὸν Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν. — Codex Laudianus (08/E); Some Old Latin MSS; Vulgate (some MSS); Irenaeus
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Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Doctrine of the rest of the apostles. 1. The Apostle Peter, therefore, after the resurrection of the Lord, and His assumption into the heavens, being desirous of filling up the number of the twelve apostles, and in electing into the place of Judas any substitute who should be chosen by God, thus addressed those who were present: Men [and] brethren, this Scripture must needs hav…
Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized a sign of his fellowship with Him in His death and resurrection, of his being engrafted into Him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God through Jesus Christ to live and walk in newness of life. Those who do actually profess repentance towards God, faith in, and ob…