1. Now in those days, there occurred a great persecution against the Church at Jerusalem. And they were all dispersed throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the Apostles.
2. But God-fearing men arranged for Stephen's funeral, and they made a great mourning over him.
3. Then Saul was laying waste to the Church by entering throughout the houses, and dragging away men and women, and committing them to prison.
4. Therefore, those who had been dispersed were traveling around, evangelizing the Word of God.
5. Now Philip, descending to a city of Samaria, was preaching Christ to them.
6. And the crowd was listening intently and with one accord to those things which were being said by Philip, and they were watching the signs which he was accomplishing.
7. For many of them had unclean spirits, and, crying out with a loud voice, these departed from them.
8. And many of the paralytics and the lame were cured.