Visual Commentary

We really don’t know much about the Ethiopian Eunuch other than:

This person is Ethiopian. We must remember that Ethiopia was not the name of a country at this time. It was a greek term that literally meant “scorched face.” To call someone “Ethiopian” was more of a racial label than a national identity. The Romans considered “The land of the Ethiopians” an exotic and mysterious place at the edge of the known world. In other words, this person had dark skin and represented the racial “other” for the brown and olive-skinned Mediterraneans.

This person is a eunuch. A eunuch was generally a man who had been castrated so that he could work closely with royal women and not be read more…

This video is a dramatic reading of the text. Feel free to play it in worship.