The Kandake’s Eunuch

The Kandake’s Eunuch (Acts 8:26–40)

The diakonos Philip travels to the desert of Gaza, authorized by “the Spirit” (8:26). His mission: the ideological conquest of “land’s end” to the south: Nubia (or Ethiopia), more specifically the city-state of Meroe ruled by the Kandake (NRSV “Candace”). Philip confronts the Kandake’s treasurer who, like him, is a multilingual Jew able to interface easily with empire, convinces him of The Way, and baptizes him. The eunuch, in turn, takes the new empire back into the heart of the Kandake’s realm…
Taken from THE WOMEN’S BIBLE COMMENTARY by Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley