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• Philip

  [People]

  Philip is the name of two figures in the New Testament: Philip the Apostle, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, and Philip the Evangelist, one of the seven men appointed by the church in Jerusalem.

• Philip the Evangelist

  [People]

  Philip the Evangelist appears in the Acts of the Apostles as one of "the seven" chosen in the early Jerusalem church. He preached the gospel in Samaria and baptized the Ethiopian eunuch. He is distinct from Philip the Apostle.

• Acts 8:32–35

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage Philip explains to an Ethiopian eunuch, who was reading the passage in Isaiah 53 about the "sheep led to the slaughter," that the words refer to Jesus. Because it identifies the "Suffering Servant" of Isaiah 53 with Jesus, it is frequently cited and discussed.

• Azotus

  [Bible]

  Azotus is the Greek name of Ashdod, an ancient Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast. In the New Testament it is the place where Philip the evangelist was found after baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:40).

• Ethiopian Eunuch

  [People]

  The Ethiopian eunuch is the treasury official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who appears in Acts 8. After hearing Philip the evangelist explain a passage from Isaiah and proclaim the gospel of Jesus, he was baptized.

• Bethsaida

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  Bethsaida was a town on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It is identified as the hometown of the apostles Philip, Andrew, and Peter, and it is where Jesus healed a blind man and rebuked the town for failing to repent.

• Acts 8

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  Acts 8 describes the great persecution that followed the martyrdom of Stephen and the scattered believers who preached the gospel wherever they went. It recounts Philip's preaching in Samaria and on the desert road to Gaza, including the accounts of Simon the sorcerer and the Ethiopian eunuch.

• Bartholomew

  [People]

  Bartholomew was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. Western church tradition has identified him with Nathanael, who appears in the Gospel of John.

• Seven Deacons

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  The Seven Deacons were seven men chosen by the early church in Jerusalem to ensure the fair distribution of relief. They included Stephen and Philip, and their appointment is commonly regarded as the origin of the office of deacon.

• Philip the Tetrarch

  [People]

  A son of Herod the Great, Philip was the tetrarch who ruled the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis northeast of the Sea of Galilee. He is named in Luke 3:1 and is known as the founder of Caesarea Philippi.

• Philip the Tetrarch

  [People]

  Philip the Tetrarch was a son of Herod the Great who ruled as tetrarch over Ituraea and Trachonitis, the region northeast of the Sea of Galilee. In the New Testament, his name appears in Luke 3:1.

• Acts 21:9

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse reporting that when Paul and his companions stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist in Caesarea, Philip had four unmarried daughters who prophesied. Because it records the prophetic activity of women in the early church, it is frequently cited in discussions of women's ordination and the gift of prophecy.

• Caesarea

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  Caesarea was a Roman-era port city on the Mediterranean coast where, according to Acts, Cornelius was converted and Paul was held in custody for two years. It is distinct from Caesarea Philippi in the northern interior.

• Gaza

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  Gaza was a major Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast in southwestern Canaan. It appears in the Samson narrative in Judges and in Acts 8, where Philip met the Ethiopian eunuch on "the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza."

• Philip (Husband of Herodias)

  [People]

  Philip was a son of Herod the Great and the first husband of Herodias. Herodias left him to marry his brother Herod Antipas, and this marriage formed the background to the imprisonment of John the Baptist (Matthew 14:3; Mark 6:17).

• Philip Melanchthon

  [People]

  Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560) was a German Reformer and humanist scholar. The closest colleague of Martin Luther, he wrote the Loci Communes, regarded as the first Protestant systematic theology, and the Augsburg Confession.

• Caesarea Philippi

  [Bible]

  Caesarea Philippi was a city on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, near the sources of the Jordan River. The Gospels present it as the place where Jesus asked His disciples, "But whom say ye that I am?" and where Peter made his confession of faith.

• Alexander the Great

  [People]

  Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) was a king of ancient Macedonia. He overthrew the Persian Empire and built an empire stretching from Greece to the Indus River. The Greek language and culture spread by his conquests formed the backdrop of the intertestamental period and the New Testament era.

• Candace

  [People]

  Candace is the "queen of the Ethiopians" mentioned in Acts 8. An official in charge of her treasury was baptized by Philip. A widely held view regards the name as a title of the queens of the ancient Nubian kingdom rather than a personal name.

• Jim Elliot

  [People]

  Jim Elliot (1927–1956) was an American Protestant missionary. In 1956 he was killed in Ecuador, along with four fellow missionaries, while attempting to bring the gospel to the Waorani people (formerly called the "Auca").