Acts 8:12

εὐαγγελ. περὶ : only here with περί, cf. Romans 1:3 (Jos., Ant., xv., 7, 2). Amongst the Samaritans Philip would have found a soil already prepared for his teaching, cf. John 4:25, and a doctrine of the Messiah, in whom the Samaritans saw not only a political but a religious renewer, and one in whom the promise of Deuteronomy 18:15 would be fulfilled (Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, i., 402, 403; Westcott, Introduction to the Study of the Gospels, pp. 162, 163). ἄνδρες τε καὶ γυναῖκες, cf. Acts 5:14 : “etiam mulieres quae a superstitionibus difficilius abstrahuntur,” Wetstein, cf. John 4:35 ff.