Acts 8:13

¹³Tunc Simon et ipse credidit et, cum baptizatus esset, adhaerebat Philippo; videns etiam signa et virtutes magnas fieri stupens admirabatur.

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