In other words, the story of the eunuch’s conversion represents the effectiveness of the word about Jesus’ suffering and death in extending the mission of God—and thus the covenant people of God—to Ethiopians and to eunuchs, to Gentiles and to the marginalized.108 This does not require an explanation of how Jesus’ death works but only a witness to the fact that it does work—and it works with this particular, unexpected result.109
