Who spoke to Philip? Where did he tell him to go? What was the description of this road?
What did Philip do in response?
Who was returning along that road? What is the description given of him?
What was he reading while in his chariot?
What did the Spirit tell Philip to do?
What did Philip ask the eunuch? What was his answer?
What points were made in the passage that the eunuch was reading?
What was his question about it?
What did Philip preach about to him? Where did he begin?
What did they find along the way? What did the eunuch ask for?
What was Philip’s answer? What was the eunuch’s response?
What happened next? What happened to Philip immediately afterward?
Where was Philip next found? Where did he preach?

Thought Questions

Considering the description of the Jerusalem-Gaza road as desert, would Philip have imagined that anything interesting or useful to his mission would happen there? Why did he go?
Has an angel or the Holy Spirit ever told you to do something? How do you know, or would you know, that it was a spirit from God? Schizophrenics have voices instructing them, too.
In Philip’s case, was the Spirit’s message supposed to benefit Philip himself, or someone else? How does this help answer the previous question?
How is the best way to preach Jesus to someone? Does it depend on the situation? How can we be aware of a person’s readiness to receive a message? Do you believe that all questions can lead to Christ?
How would you interpret the passage from Isaiah (Is. 53:7-8)? How would you use this text to tell someone about Jesus?
What are the qualifications for baptism? (We dealt with the same question earlier in this chapter.) Was Philip too hasty in baptizing people? Why or why not?

My prayer is:
that I would be open and willing to obey the Spirit of God’s leading, despite how unfruitful it sounds like it might be to me;
that I would be prepared and able to preach Christ from any question that might arise from a stranger I might happen to meet;
And that I would consider baptism, if I have not already been baptized as an adult, as the symbol of my commitment to Christ.