Acts 8:9-11 There was a man named Simon in the town, who had been amazing the Samaritan people by practicing magic there, and who made great pretensions.

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁹ There was a man named Simon in the town, who had been amazing the Samaritan people by practicing magic there, and who made great pretensions. ¹⁰ Everyone there, high and low, made much of him, and said, "He must be what is known as the Great Power of God!" ¹¹ They made much of him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic.