Philip was sent by God to the Ethiopian who was studying the bible. Philip went up to him and asked what he was reading and the Ethiopian answered that he didn't know. So Philip taught him what the Scripture said and the Ethiopian believed it and wanted to be baptized. Philip then baptized the Ethiopian and God took him away.
Philip was on the road to Gaza.
Philip used the old testament and the book was Isaiah , to the Ethiopian eunuch.
He baptizes the Ethiopian eunuch.
Philip told the eunuch about Jesus. This passage is found in Acts 8:26-40.
The Ethiopian eunuch was the one converted by Philip in the Bible. As a man of considerable influence in the Queen's court, he was believed to be the one who started the movement of Christianity in Africa.
Answer: The Ethiopian eunuch was the first recorded Gentile convert to the Christian faith.
The name of the Ethiopian eunuch is not known. All that is known is that he was an unmarried man who was devoted to his master. He also would have been a convert to Judaism and was going to worship in the Temple in Jerusalem. (Acts 8:26-39)
His name is Bakos. He is an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. The name wasn't mentioned in the bible but is still famous in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church and the church has many reference for this part of the bible and the whole. You can find the story in Acts 8:26. Philip the Apostle taught him and finally baptised him. According to Church Scholars, Bakos is the first person who took the knowledge of Christianity out of the middle East and introduced to the outside world, even before the Apostles did it.
Yes, the Ethiopian Eunuch was not an Israelite, so on learning how to worship the true God, became a 'proselyte' (Acts 8:26-38)
Philip.
The first recorded African Christian
The Ethiopian Eunuch, Simon of Cyrene, Rufus in Rome, Ebedmelech, Solomon's Bride, Moses' Ethiopian Wife
In biblical times, books were kept as short as possible, so that they could fit onto one scroll of papyrus. The trip from Gaza, where Acts says that Philip baptised the eunuch, to Azotus (Ashdod) was unimportant and hardly worth recounting, but the author of Luke and Acts was good at miracles. As soon as Philip had baptised the eunuch, he disappeared and reappeared in Azotus, by the Spirit of the Lord (Acts 8:39-40).