3 others in the registry answer to the name Philip. Every Philip in the Bible
- verses
- 16
- first named
- Acts 6:5
- last named
- Acts 21:9
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Philip?
Philip was one of the seven men chosen by the early church in Jerusalem to serve as deacons, responsible for the daily distribution of food to widows (Act.6.5). After the martyrdom of Stephen, a great persecution arose against the church, and the believers were scattered. Philip went to Samaria and preached the gospel, performing miracles and casting out unclean spirits (Act.8.4-8). Many Samaritans believed and were baptized, including Simon the sorcerer (Act.8.9-13).
Philip was then directed by an angel to go south on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza, where he encountered an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians (Act.8.26-28). The eunuch was reading from the book of Isaiah, and Philip explained to him the good news about Jesus (Act.8.29-35). The eunuch believed and was baptized by Philip (Act.8.36-38). After this, Philip was miraculously transported by the Spirit to Azotus, and he continued preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea (Act.8.39-40).
Later, Philip is mentioned as one of the "seven" and referred to as "Philip the evangelist" (Act.21.8). He had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy (Act.21.9). Paul and his companions stayed with Philip in Caesarea during Paul's final journey to Jerusalem (Act.21.8-16).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Philip is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
16 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Acts (16).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 16, across 1 book.
One address is attested in the Hebrew or Greek and printed by no verse of the edition carried here, so it has no page to link to.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources