An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: “Get up and go south, to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” It is a desert road.
In context
24Simon answered, “Beg the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing you have said may come upon me.” 25When they had borne witness and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, announcing the good news in many Samaritan villages. 26An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: “Get up and go south, to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” It is a desert road. 27So he got up and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury, who had come to Jerusalem to worship. 28He was on his way home, sitting in his chariot and reading the prophet Isaiah.
