Charles Spurgeon Commentary Acts 8:4

"They therefore that were scattered abroad, went about preaching the word." — Acts 8:4 (ASV)

Therefore those who were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.

They might have stopped at Jerusalem and made a comfortable and strong church there, if they had not been persecuted; but, being scattered abroad, they were like seed in every furrow of the field: they went everywhere preaching the word.

Now, out of this church, there is a continual drain of brothers and sisters who leave their native land to go to distant colonies; such are the exigencies of the times that many have to go abroad. I charge you, wherever you go, carry the holy seed with you. Be yourselves a seed for Christ in every land.