Acts 8:26-39
The context
Acts 8 moves from the Samaritan mission and Simon's money to a desert road south of Jerusalem. Philip is directed there and meets an official from the Ethiopian court reading Isaiah. The passage he reads is the one about the suffering servant, and the narrative turns on the question of whom it describes.
What it establishes
It establishes how the early movement read Isaiah: as a text needing interpretation, and as one that spoke of Jesus. The narrative also presents baptism following belief, at the official's request.
What it does not establish
It does not record the whole conversation. Only a portion of the servant song is cited, and the official's confession appears in some manuscripts and not others. The passage shows a reading practice; it does not supply an argument for why that reading is correct.
Short note, first pass, October 2026. Corrections welcome.
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