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But Saul shamefully treated and laid waste the church continuously [with cruelty and violence]; and entering house after house, he dragged out men and women and committed them to prison.

Now those who were scattered abroad went about [through the land from place to place] preaching the glad tidings, the Word [[a]the doctrine concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God].

Philip [the deacon, not the apostle] went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ (the Messiah) to them [the people];(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 8:4 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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