Man living at the time of the New Testament
Philip the evangelist
One of the seven chosen in Jerusalem (Acts 6:5), who went down to Samaria and proclaimed the Christ there, with signs and many believers (Acts 8:5–8). An angel sent him to the desert road to Gaza, where he met an Ethiopian official reading Isaiah. He asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” and, “beginning from this Scripture,” preached Jesus to him and baptized him (Acts 8:26–38). He then preached in the towns up to Caesarea, where Paul later stayed in his house; he had four daughters who prophesied (Acts 8:40; 21:8–9).