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but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”

“Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”

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

“Tell me,” said the eunuch, “who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?”

As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”

Finally the city clerk quieted the crowd and declared, “Men of Ephesus, doesn’t everyone know that the city of Ephesus is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?