Acts 8:36

³⁶As they continued down the road, they came to a stream of water. The eunuch said, "Here''s water. Why can''t I be baptized?"

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