Acts 8:16

¹⁶because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.c

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