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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
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The Candace's treasurer, a eunuch, reading Isaiah in his chariot on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. Philip told him the passage was about Jesus and baptised him there and then.
The Candace's treasurer, a eunuch, reading Isaiah in his chariot on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. Philip told him the passage was about Jesus and baptised him there and then.
Ethiopian here refers to the treasury official of the Ethiopian queen known as the Candace, an Ethiopian eunuch whom Philip met on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza while he was reading the prophet Isaiah (Acts 8:27). Philip explained that the passage pointed to Jesus, and the official was baptized on the spot, one of the earliest signs in Acts of the gospel reaching beyond Jewish and Samaritan boundaries.
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- Acts 8:27
