Acts 8:5-10

⁵Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and there began to preach the Christ.

⁶The people, one and all, listened attentively to what Philip told them, when they heard of, and saw, the miracles which he was working.

⁷For there were many instances of people with foul spirits, where the spirits, with loud screams, came out of them;

⁸and many who were paralyzed or lame were cured, so that there was great rejoicing throughout that city.

⁹There was staying in the city a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic there and mystifying the Samaritan people, giving himself out to be some great being.

¹⁰Everyone, high and low, paid attention to him. ‘This man,’ they used to say, ‘must be that power of God which people call “The Great Power.”’