Acts 8:13

¹³Then Simon himself believed and was baptized. He began following Philip wherever he went, and he was amazed by the signs and great miracles Philip performed.

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