Acts Bible Study: Day 14 Today’s passage: Acts 8:26–40 Focus verse: Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road.” (Acts 8:26) Though God’s doing amazing work in Samaria through Philip, God doesn’t have him stick around to help the people grow in their new faith. Instead, God sends […]
Acts Bible Study: Day 13 Today’s passage: Acts 8:4–25 Focus verse: You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. (Acts 8:21) Remember how Jesus’s followers scatter after the Jews kill Stephen? Philip goes to Samaria. In Jesus’s name, he does amazing supernatural things. He heals people who […]
In the city of Samaria lives Simon. He’s a sorcerer, a wizard of sorts who amazes people with his supernatural power. He thinks he’s all that. People reinforce his misguided arrogance, calling him “the Great Power of God.” Some people even follow Simon because of his amazing abilities. But when Philip, likely Philip (3), shows […]
A man from Ethiopia makes a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He’s a high-ranking official in the Ethiopian government, the treasurer to the Kandake, the Queen of the Ethiopian people. The Bible also tells us that he’s a eunuch. This doesn’t seem relevant, yet we pin this label on this man calling him the Ethiopian eunuch. But […]
Philip (1) is a disciple of Jesus, whereas Philip (3) is a deacon in the early church, chosen with six others to manage their growing community. In addition to helping run the church in Jerusalem, Philip is also an evangelist. When persecution hits the church in Jerusalem and the people scatter to avoid arrest or […]
Candace is the queen of Ethiopia. That’s all we know about her. Some translations don’t even give her name, but instead call her the Kandake, which means the queen of Ethiopia. An important member of her cabinet, the treasurer, is in Jerusalem to worship God. Returning to Ethiopia in his chariot, he reads from Isaiah’s […]