²⁵ After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord^(A) and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.^(B)

Philip and the Ethiopian

²⁶ Now an angel^(C) of the Lord said to Philip,^(D) “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” ²⁷ So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian^[a](E) eunuch,^(F) an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,^(G)