<p>8:30 <i>And <em>Philip ran to him </em></i><i>and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said</i>- Sensing the Lord was leading him, Philip was eager to respond. Running is a Hebraism for response to God's word (Hab. 2:2; Dan. 12:4). We too need to sense where we are being led and enthusiastically respond in order to be led further.</p><p><em>Do you understand what you read?</em>- Our Bible reading can be so easily performed on a merely surface level, skimming over words without letting their real import be felt at all. Fred Barling truly observed: &ldquo;Through long familiarity we have come to read the Bible with a phlegm and impassivity which are in sharp contrast to the amazement felt by those who came into actual contact with Jesus, and by those who first read these accounts&rdquo;. Philip realized this when he quizzed the eunuch, with a play on words in the Greek: &quot;Do you understand what you read?&quot; . <em>ginoskeis ha anaginoskeis? </em>'Do you really understand, experientially, what you are understanding by reading?'.</p>