Acts 8:33

³³In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”

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