The Desert Road: Acts 8:26-40

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. Philip—not the apostle but the evangelist, one of the seven with Stephen. He had been successful in Samaria, seeing revival, baptizing many. Now: go south. To the desert road. Away from the crowds. Toward apparently nothing. So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means queen of the Ethiopians).…