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- “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”[b]
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Philip and the Ethiopian - Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian ...
Jan 4, 2022 · Phillip was the name of two of King Herod the Great’s sons by different wives (Luke 3:1 and Matthew 14:3). The other two Philips in the Bible were servants of Christ and instrumental in the early church: Philip the disciple and apostle of Christ, and Philip the evangelist.
- God’s leadership of our lives often defies human logic. God had something for Philip in the desert, but it took faith for the man to go. Joy and gladness and salvation, everything the early disciples (and current ones) could have hoped for, was occurring at a rapid rate in Samaria.
- Some people are driven to Scripture in search for more. The Ethiopian man was a eunuch, a servant of Queen Candace. He had gone to Jerusalem for something, perhaps to experience God, but he returned empty-handed.
- We must obey the promptings of the Spirit. Philip was told to go to the desert by an angel. Once there, the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot” (8:29).
- We must provide guidance in the Scripture. The man told Philip what he had been reading. The passage could not have been more perfect, an evidence of God’s providence.
Philip the Evangelist (Greek: Φίλιππος, Philippos) appears several times in the Acts of the Apostles. He was one of the Seven chosen to care for the poor of the Christian community in Jerusalem (Acts 6).
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We don’t learn much about Philip from the synoptic gospels or Book of Acts—in fact, pretty much all we learn is that he’s always listed with Bartholomew. But the Gospel of John and the early church fill in some blanks and help us understand a little more about who he was.
Aside from the lists of apostles in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Acts, Philip appears in four narratives in the Gospel of John. They don’t tell us much, but they’re all we really have to go on.
It’s hard to say how Philip died, especially since he was confused with Philip the Evangelist early on, and there are conflicting accounts. One record says he died of natural causes. Another says he was beheaded. Or stoned to death. Or crucified upside down. Most of the earliest traditions seem to point to him being martyred in Hierapolis. In a let...
There’s really not much we can say about Philip without speculating. The Bible doesn’t tell us much, and even some of the most reliable early church writers were confused about who he even was. What we do know is this: as one of the Twelve, Philip certainly held an important role in the early church, and he likely played a key part in spreading the...
May 26, 1991 · Philip proclaimed the good news of Jesus to him (v. 35)—that "the Lord has laid on him the iniquities of us all" (Isaiah 53:6) and that we are set right with God through his death and resurrection (Isaiah 53:4–5, 11–12).
Jun 10, 2018 · Philip learned the truth about the kingdom of God at the feet of Jesus, then preached the gospel after Jesus' resurrection and ascension.
