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Philip baptizes an Ethiopian official

AD 34Ussher date

Acts 8:26–40; Isaiah 53:7–8

On the desert road to Gaza, Philip met a court official of the queen of Ethiopia reading Isaiah 53 in his chariot. Philip told him the good news about Jesus, and the official asked to be baptized.

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

Acts 8:35 (World English Bible)
JerusalemAntiochDamascusRomeParthiansMedesElamitesMesopotamiaCappadociaPontusAsiaPhrygiaPamphyliaEgyptLibya (Cyrene)CretansArabiansRomansto Ethiopia (Acts 8)Italic: peoples at Pentecost (Acts 2:9–11). Gold arrows: the gospel spreads in Acts,from Jerusalem to Samaria, Damascus, Antioch, Asia, Greece, Ethiopia, and Rome (Acts 1:8).Coastlines simplified
The peoples at Pentecost (Acts 2:9–11) and the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem in Acts.

He was treasurer to the Kandake, the queen mother of the kingdom of Kush (Meroë, in today's Sudan), and had come to Jerusalem to worship. He was reading about the lamb led to the slaughter and asked whether the prophet spoke of himself or of someone else. He went on his way rejoicing, perhaps the first to carry the gospel into Africa.

Places

JerusalemGazaAshdodCaesarea

Dating notes

Ussher: late AD 34.

Open on the timelineRead Acts 8:26–40