Acts 8:36

As they went. Philip and the eunuch must have traveled for some time together, for he not only presented to him the facts of salvation through Jesus Christ in terms of Isaiah 53, but carried the instruction to the point where the eunuch understood the meaning of baptism, and desired it for himself.

A certain water. In the 4th century this was identified with Bethsura, the Bethzur of 2 Chron. 11:7, 20 miles from Jerusalem, and 4 miles from Hebron. A spring here still retains the old name in the Arabic form, Beit-Sur. Others think the spring was in the Wadi-el-Hesi, between Eleutheropolis and Gaza, not far from the old cities of Lachish and Eglon. This better agrees with the proximity of the event to Gaza and with the information that the way of travel led through the desert.

What doth hinder? The eagerness of the eunuch to complete his preparation for membership in the church of his new-found Lord is exemplary. The initiative was his; he needed no urging from Philip. He had learned of a Saviour, and had forsaken his sins. He had been instructed in the Name and the Way. What reason could be advanced to deny him the rite of baptism?