Commentary on Acts 8:26-39

Commentary for this text is forthcoming.

Notes

1. The Greek here is pronounced can-DAH-kay, not CAN-dass. These were the queen mothers of Meröe.
2. Shaye Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014), 199-200.

PRAYER OF THE DAY

Fulfillment of the prophesies,
With Scripture and water you claim people as your own. Claim us with water and the word, so that we may rejoice in the life given to us through the gift of the Holy Spirit, for the sake of the one whose spirit lives in us, Jesus Christ. Amen.

HYMNS

All who believe and are baptized ELW 442, H82 298
O blessed spring ELW 447
On our way rejoicing ELW 537

CHORAL

There is a river, Ellen Gilson Voth