Acts 8:10

¹⁰They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.”

Acts 8 marks a pivot point in the early church's story. The persecution that erupts after Stephen's death scatters believers from Jerusalem, and that scattering becomes the engine of mission. Philip, one of the seven deacons, takes the gospel to Samaria — a region and people long estranged from the