<p>8:5 <i>And Philip w<em>ent down- </em></i>This is how any journey from Jerusalem was described. Travellers went 'up' to Jerusalem and thence 'went down'.</p><p><i>To the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ</i>- Defined in :12 as the things about His Name and His Father's Kingdom. This term 'preached Christ' is clearly parallel to the statement that they 'evangelized the <em>logos</em>' (:4). The essential word / <em>logos</em> of God was seen to be the Lord Jesus personally. This indeed is how John began his preaching of the Gospel, as transcripted in the gospel of John.</p>