Talking about Jesus

“The eunuch asked Philip, ‘Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?’ Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.” Acts 8:34-35
This passage is a neat story showing just how easy it can be to talk to someone about Jesus. Philip had been directed by the Holy Spirit to the desert road between Jerusalem and Gaza, and then to a chariot travelling along the road, where a man from Ethiopia (who was most likely a member of the royal court) was reading the Old Testament – specifically, Isaiah 53. He doesn’t understand what he is reading, and asks Philip to explain it to him. So Philip explains that the passage is referring to Jesus, how He would be crucified and killed, not for His own sin, but for ours, and how salvation is now available to all who would believe.
We might look at Isa. 53 as an ‘easy’ passage from which to tell someone about Jesus, but in reality every passage speaks about Him in some way. Think of some of the famous Bible passages that even non-Christians are familiar with: Psalm 23, ‘the Lord is my shepherd’; 1 Corinthians 13, the ‘love chapter’, John 3:16, etc. If we know how these fit into the big story of the Bible and why Jesus had to come and die on the cross for us, we can do as Philip did: start with that Scripture, and tell them the good news about Jesus.