Acts 8:31-35

“How can I [understand],” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

Philip asked the Ethiopian (probably a Gentile proselyte) if he understood what he was reading, and the man admitted that he did not. Many valuable literature and radio ministries are being conducted today among some of the world’s unreached peoples. But small unreached people groups like the Nenets often have the same problem as the Ethiopian eunuch: they need further face-to-face explanation of what they read and hear. The Great Commission is a call for God’s people to live among peoples isolated from such opportunities.