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  • Acts 8:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 5 Now Philip went down to the city* of Sa·marʹi·a+ and began to preach the Christ to them.

  • Acts 8:5
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 5 Φίλιππος Philip δὲ but κατελθὼν having gone down εἰς into τὴν the πόλιν city τῆς of the Σαμαρίας Samaria ἐκήρυσσεν he was preaching αὐτοῖς to them τὸν the χριστόν. Christ.

  • Acts 8:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 5 Philip, for one, went down to the city of Sa·marʹi·a+ and began to preach the Christ to them.

  • Acts 8:5
    The Bible in Living English
    • 5* And Philip came down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them;

  • Acts 8:5
    American Standard Version
    • 5 And Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed unto them the Christ.

  • Acts 8:5
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 5 and Philip going down unto the city of Samaria proclaimed unto them the Christ.

  • Acts 8:5
    King James Version
    • 5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.

  • Acts
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2023
    • 8:5 bt 52; it-2 672-673

  • Acts
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 8:5 w72 690; w51 382

  • Acts
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 8:5

      Insight, Volume 2, pp. 672-673

      Bearing Witness, p. 52

      The Watchtower,

      11/15/1972, pp. 690-691

      6/15/1951, pp. 382-383

  • Acts Study Notes—Chapter 8
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 8:5

      Philip: According to Ac 8:1, “all except the apostles were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.” Therefore, the Philip mentioned here is not the apostle Philip. (Mt 10:3; Ac 1:13) Rather, it is apparently the Philip who was among the “seven reputable men” appointed to organize the daily distribution of food among the Greek-speaking and Hebrew-speaking Christian widows in Jerusalem. (Ac 6:1-6) After the events recorded in Acts chapter 8, Philip is mentioned just once more, at Ac 21:8, as “Philip the evangelizer.”​—See study note on Ac 21:8.

      the city: Or, according to some manuscripts, “a city.” This is apparently referring to the main city of the Roman district of Samaria. The name Samaria originally referred to the capital city of the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel as well as to the entire territory of that kingdom. Samaria was the capital until that kingdom was overthrown by the Assyrians in 740 B.C.E. The city, however, remained throughout Roman times, and in Jesus’ day, Samaria was also the name of the Roman district that lay between Galilee in the N and Judea in the S. (See Glossary, “Samaria.”) Herod the Great rebuilt the city of Samaria and renamed it Sebaste in honor of Roman Emperor Augustus. (The name Sebaste is a feminine Greek form of the Latin name Augustus.) The present-day Arabic name, Sabastiya, preserves the name Herod gave it.​—See App. B10.

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