Big Picture: Luke is highlighting the continuing fulfillment of God's promises to restore his people. The Davidic King reigns over his people and, as Isaiah anticipated, the scattered people of Israel and those excluded from the assembly of Israel are united through the message of the good news of forgiveness brought about through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

By Way of Prologue:

• Rebuilding the Kingdom of David
• The first recorded conversion of an induvial in the book of Acts.
• Jew or Gentile?
• What is a eunuch?
• Holiness/wholeness

The Flow of the Passage:

• A divinely arranged encounter (8:26–31)
• Finding Christ in the scriptures (8:32–38)
• Philip’s continuing ministry (8:39–40)

WHAT IS BAPTISM? Baptism is a church’s act of affirming and portraying a believer’s union with Christ by immersing him or her in water → and a believer’s act of publicly committing him or herself to Christ and his people, thereby uniting a believer to the church and marking off him or her from the world.