Philip, following the leading of God’s Spirit, finds himself in the presence of a eunuch from Ethiopia. Whether man-made or natural-born, we do not know. But I don’t think that’s the point. The point is that this new thing that God is doing through Jesus has broken through the wall of the sexual “other,” a category of people that were previously outsiders from a Jewish perspective. Yet now, through the witness of Philip, a eunuch has come into relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and given the gift of baptism. He joins the rest of the family at the Table … with zero words of
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