Persecution scatters the church out of Jerusalem — and everywhere the scattered land, they plant.
Philip takes the gospel into Samaria, then walks away from a whole city’s worth of converts to chase down a single chariot on an empty desert road. There he meets an Ethiopian official — a foreigner and a eunuch, excluded by the Law from the assembly of the Lord — and shows him that the very Scripture he’s reading has room for him after all. Meanwhile, on a different road, a man named Saul is riding to Damascus with letters authorizing him to drag believers back to Jerusalem in chains. He never arrives as the man who left.
Acts of the Apostles
