Philip was one of those who left Jerusalem and spread the gospel. Acts 8:26 tells us that as he went along an angel directed him to take the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. The angel redirected him so that he might encounter an Ethiopian eunuch in charge of the treasury for the queen mother of Ethiopia.17 Within the narrative world of Acts, the conversion of this Ethiopian manifests God’s concern for the nations of the world. Philip approaches him and discovers that he is reading a passage from Isaiah. The Ethiopian could only be familiar with Isaiah if he already knew something of the God of
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