Acts 8:4-11

⁴Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

⁵Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ.

⁶The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip when they heard and saw the signs which he did.

⁷For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

⁸There was great joy in that city.

⁹But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

¹⁰to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”

¹¹They listened to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.