Simon Magus
The sorcerer at Samaria who believed and was baptized, then offered the apostles money for the power to give the Holy Spirit — and gave his name to the sin of simony.
Biography
Key Data
- Era
- New Testament
- Titles
- Sorcerer
- Tags
- acts · samaria
What MannaFest holds on Simon Magus
This page carries the summary above and little else yet — not because the record is hidden, but because it is genuinely thin here.
This name is stored in a form the verse search cannot use — a title or a qualifier rather than a single name as the text writes it — so no mention list was built. Nave’s Topical Bible carries no heading under this name either, and no study on the site cites a passage where it appears.
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