Philip

Philip the apostle is from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter (John 1:44). Jesus finds him and says, "Follow Me" (John 1:43). Philip finds Nathanael (John 1:45). At the feeding, Jesus tests him: "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?" (John 6:5). The Greeks come to him (John 12:21). In the upper room he says, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us" (John 14:8). He is in the lists of the twelve. That is the man.

Philip the evangelist is a different man. He is one of the seven in Jerusalem (Acts 6:5). He preaches in Samaria and to the Ethiopian on the road (Acts 8:5, Acts 8:26-40). He lives at Caesarea, and he has four unmarried daughters who prophesy (Acts 21:8-9). Luke calls him "Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven," which is how you know not to merge him with the apostle. Later historians sometimes did merge them. Luke did not.

The apostle Philip has no book. Acts does not give him a journey after the upper room.

The New Testament does not tell his death. Later memory puts him at Hierapolis in Asia. The details differ. They are not Scripture, and they are not the story of the man at Caesarea.