PHILIP (PART 1)
Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
ACT 6:5 This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man
full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor,
Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
8:4 Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.
5 Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ there.
6 When the crowds heard Philip and saw the miraculous signs he did, they
all paid close attention to what he said.
7 With shrieks, evil spirits came out of many, and many paralytics and
cripples were healed.
8 So there was great joy in that city.
9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city
and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great,
10 and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and
exclaimed, "This man is the divine power known as the Great Power."
11 They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his
magic.
12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the good news of the
kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men
and women.
13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip
everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.
14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word
of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an
important official in charge of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the
Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
28 and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the book of
Isaiah the prophet.
29 The Spirit told Philip, "Go to that chariot and stay near it."
30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the
prophet. "Do you understand what you are reading?" Philip asked.
31 "How can I," he said, "unless someone explains it to me?" So he invited
Philip to come up and sit with him.
32 The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: "He was led like a
sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so he
did not open his mouth.
33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his
descendants? For his life was taken from the earth."
34 The eunuch asked Philip, "Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking
about, himself or someone else?"
35 Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the
good news about Jesus.
36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch
said, "Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?"
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38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch
went down into the water and Philip baptized him.
39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly
took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way
rejoicing.
21:8 Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of
Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven.
9 He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.
10 After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came
down from Judea.
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