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| | |But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: | | |But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: |
| − | | | + | |Yet a man named Simon, who had amazed Samaria's citizens with his black magic, claimed that he was a great man. |
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| | |To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. | | |To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. |
| − | | | + | |The people respected him, from the low to the high, and said, "This man is powerful through God!" |
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| | |And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. | | |And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. |
| − | | | + | |They always paid attention to him because he had amazed them with magic. |
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| | |But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. | | |But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. |
| − | | | + | |Even so, they accepted Philip's preaching about the Kingdom of God, and they were baptized in Jesus Christ's name, man and woman alike! |
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