Acts 8:5

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Summary

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

(Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.

This plan commended itself to the whole body, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nikanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nikolaos a proselyte from Antioch;

and started next morning for Caesarea, where we entered the house of Philip the evangelist (he belonged to the Seven,

The city

These twelve men Jesus despatched with the following instructions, "Do not go among the Gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town,

Preached

Then Philip opened his lips, and starting from this scripture preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

not for a single day did they cease to teach and preach the gospel of Jesus the Christ in the temple and at home.

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

and Paul as usual went in; for three sabbaths he argued with them on the scriptures,

The woman said to him, "Well, I know messiah (which means Christ) is coming. When he arrives, he will explain it all to us."

but our message is Christ the crucified ??a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other.

General references

They set out from the town on their way to him.