The Ethiopian eunuch was well respected in the court of
Candice but in Jerusalem he was denied access to the temple of the faith he was
so anxious to understand. Cut off from the people of God by race and
circumstance he none-the-less worshiped the God whose holy word branded him
unclean. (Deuteronomy 23:1) It’s no surprise then that one so excluded would be
drawn to the suffering servant described by Isaiah and wonder if the word about
“the prophet or someone else” might also be a word for him. So God sends Philip
the Greek to evangelize the African official into the faith of Jesus the suffering
Jew. Irony is not lost on the Lord.
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