Introduction
Believers flee because of persecution (v 1).
Persecution makes the believers scatter taking the message wherever they go.
Questions
1. What was the result of Saul’s persecution of the assembly in Jerusalem?
v 4 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.
2. What did Simon think he could buy from Peter and John?
v 19 ... "Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit."
3. What did the eunuch want to do after Philip explained about Jesus?
v 36 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptised?”
Summary Points
- v 1 to 3 Saul increases the persecution of the believers. Believers scatter throughout Judea and Samaria
- v 4 to 8 Philip goes and preaches to the Samaritans
- v 9 to 24 A sorcerer called Simon becomes a believer. He sees that the apostles can give the Holy Spirit to people who have been baptised and asks to buy the same power. Peter reprimands him and tells him to repent
- v 25 to 40 Philip is sent to speak to an Ethiopian eunuch. He is reading from the prophet Isaiah (ch. 53 v 7 and 8). Philip explains so convincingly how this applies to Jesus that when the Ethiopian sees water he asks to be baptised