Acts 8:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵ And Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed Christ to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Philip [the deacon, not the apostle] went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ (the Messiah) to them [the people]; [Acts 6:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed unto them the Christ.

Common English Bible

⁵ Philip went down to a city in Samaria and began to preach Christ to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Now Philip, descending to a city of Samaria, was preaching Christ to them.

Acts 8:5 Cross References

Acts 6:5

This arrangement pleased the whole group, so they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolaus, a proselyte [i.e., convert to the Jewish religion] from Antioch.

Acts 21:8

The next day we left and came to Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip, the evangelist, who had been one of the seven [“deacons” chosen by the Jerusalem church to minister to widows, See Acts 6]. We stayed with him [while there].

Acts 8:40

But [later on] Philip appeared at Azotus and after leaving there he preached the good news [of Jesus] to all the towns along the way until he reached Caesarea. [Note: Caesarea was a town on the west coast of Palestine, named after the emperor Caesar].

1 Corinthians 3:11

For no one can lay [any] other foundation than the one which [God] has [already] lain, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:23

but we [apostles] preach that Christ was crucified [for our sins]. This message is offensive to Jews and foolishness to [unconverted] Gentiles.

Acts 5:42

So, every day, they never stopped teaching and preaching that Jesus was the Christ [i.e., God’s specially chosen one], in the Temple and in private homes.

1 Corinthians 2:2

For I have decided not to know anything [while] among you, except Jesus Christ and His being crucified.

Acts 9:20

And so Saul began proclaiming that Jesus was the Son of God in the synagogues [of the Damascus area].

Acts 8:1

And Saul was in full agreement with Stephen being put to death. And a great persecution broke out against the Jerusalem church, and all the disciples, except the apostles, were scattered throughout the districts of Judea and Samaria.

Acts 1:8

But, you apostles will receive power when the Holy Spirit descends on you and [then] you will become My witnesses [i.e., to tell what you know] in Jerusalem, in [the countries of] Judea and Samaria, and [even] to the distant regions of the earth.”

Acts 8:6

Great crowds of people joined together in accepting Philip’s message when they heard and saw the [miraculous] signs he was able to perform.

Acts 8:26

[Meanwhile] an angel [sent] from the Lord spoke to Philip and said, “Get up and travel south on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza; that is a deserted region.”

Acts 8:30

So, Philip ran over to it and [when he got near enough] he heard the Ethiopian eunuch reading from Isaiah the prophet and asked him, “Do you understand what you are reading?”