Acts 8:5

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Acts 8:5

Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.

Philip

Acts 8:1

Acts 6:5

Acts 21:8

The city

Matthew 10:5

Preached

General references

John 4:30

Bible References

Philip

With these words he fell asleep. And Saul fully approved of his murder. On this very day there broke out a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostle were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.

This plan commended itself to the whole body, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.

On the morrow we started for Caesarea, where we went into the house of Philip, the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

The city

These men, the Twelve, Jesus sent forth, after giving them the following instructions. "Do not go among the Gentiles, or enter any Samaritan town,

Preached

Then Philip opened his lips, and beginning from that same scripture, he preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

but not for a single day did they desist from teaching and preaching in the Temple, and in private houses, the Gospel of Jesus, the Messiah.

And he began at once to proclaim in the synagogues Jesus as the Son of God.

and Paul, according to his usual custom, went in to them and, for three Sabbath Days, he reasoned with them out of the Scriptures,

"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."

but we come preaching a crucified Messiah??o Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,

for I determined to know nothing, while among you, but Jesus as Christ, and him a crucified Christ.

The foundation is already laid??esus Christ??nd no man can lay another.

General references

They left the city and set out to go to him.