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Simon Magus (Greek Σίμων ὁ μάγος, Latin: Simon Magus), also known as Simon the Sorcerer or Simon the Magician, was a religious figure whose confrontation with Peter is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. [1] The act of simony, or paying for position, is named after Simon, who tried to buy his way into the power of the Apostles.
Elymas (/ ˈ ɛ l ɪ m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἐλύμας; [1] c. 1st century AD), also known as Bar-Jesus (Ancient Greek: Βαριησοῦς, [1] Imperial Aramaic: Bar-Shuma, Latin: Bariesu), is a character described in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 13, [2] where he is referred to as a mágos (μάγος), which the King James Bible translates as "sorcerer" and false prophet ...
Elymas the sorcerer is struck blind before Sergius Paulus. Painting by Raphael from the Raphael Cartoons. The account of Saul/Paul displaying the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit (verse 9) that led a proconsul into faith (verse 12) parallels Simon Peter's encounters with Simon Magus (Acts 8:14–24), and with Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1 ...
Simon is then taken to Terracina to one Castor "And there he was sorely cut (Lat.[in Latin] by two physicians), and so Simon the angel of Satan came to his end." [ 5 ] Peter's confrontation with Simon Magus has some resemblance to the Prophet Elijah 's confrontation with the Priests of Baal , as depicted in the Old Testament 's Book of Kings ...
Simon is called "Zelotes" in Luke and Acts (Luke 6:15 Acts 1:13). For this reason, it is generally assumed that Simon was a former member of the political party, the Zealots. In Matthew and Mark, however, he is called "Kananites" in the Byzantine majority and "Kananaios" in the Alexandrian manuscripts and the Textus Receptus (Matthew 10:4 Mark ...
Simon the Cyrene! A man from that far away African country of Cyrenaica -- a noted seaport country on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. What brought him there was unknown. But we do not ...
James Tabor, in his controversial book The Jesus Dynasty, suggests that Simon was the son of Mary and Clophas. [7] While Robert Eisenman suggests he was Simon Cephas (Simon the Rock), known in Greek as Peter (from petros "rock"), who led the Jewish Christian community after the death of James in 62 CE.
The topic is based on an incident similarly recounted in the Acts of Peter and Acts of Peter and Paul, two apocryphal gospels.In the latter, both Peter and Paul are present in Rome; Simon Magus to astound the apostles with his power to levitate, flies off a high structure, but Peter, with his prayers, is able to confound the demons holding Simon aloft, and the sorcerer falls to his death.