| 8:1 |
Now in those days, there occurred a great persecution against the Church at Jerusalem. And they were all dispersed throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the Apostles. |
| 8:2 |
But God-fearing men arranged for Stephen’s funeral, and they made a great mourning over him. |
| 8:3 |
Then Saul was laying waste to the Church by entering throughout the houses, and dragging away men and women, and committing them to prison. |
| 8:4 |
Therefore, those who had been dispersed were traveling around, evangelizing the Word of God. |
| 8:5 |
Now Philip, descending to a city of Samaria, was preaching Christ to them. |
| 8:6 |
And the crowd was listening intently and with one accord to those things which were being said by Philip, and they were watching the signs which he was accomplishing. |
| 8:7 |
For many of them had unclean spirits, and, crying out with a loud voice, these departed from them. |
| 8:8 |
And many of the paralytics and the lame were cured. |