Acts 8:14

¹⁴Cum autem audissent apostoli, qui erant Hierosolymis, quia recepit Samaria verbum Dei, miserunt ad illos Petrum et Ioannem;

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