** Simon Magus ( 8: 9 – 24 )

Acts also features an emphasis on prayer and includes a number of notable prayers such as the Believers ' Prayer (), Stephen's death prayer (), and Simon Magus ' prayer ().

So Irenaeus tells of the system of Simon Magus, of the system of Menander, of the system of Saturninus, in which the number of these angels is reckoned as seven, and of the system of Carpocrates.

Like many other Christian writers, he also claims that heresy began with Simon Magus, a figure whom receives mention in Acts 8: 9-13 for being a magician from the city of Samaria.

The German Abbot and occultist Trithemius ( 1462 – 1516 ) supposedly had in his possession a Book of Simon the Magician, based upon the New Testament figure of Simon Magus.

* Helene, the consort of Simon Magus

In Book I, Irenaeus talks about the Valentinian Gnostics and their predecessors, who go as far back as the magician Simon Magus.

Simon the Sorcerer or Simon the Magician, in Latin Simon Magus, ( Greek Σίμων ὁ μάγος ) was a Samaritan magus or religious figure and a convert to Christianity, baptised by Philip the Evangelist, whose later confrontation with Peter is recorded in.

Peter's conflict with Simon Magus by Avanzino Nucci, 1620.

God then descended in the form of Simon Magus, to rescue his Ennoia, and to confer salvation upon men through knowledge of himself.

The death of Simon Magus, from the Nuremberg Chronicle

Cyril of Jerusalem ( 346 AD ) in the sixth of his Catechetical Lectures prefaces his history of the Manichaeans by a brief account of earlier heresies: Simon Magus, he says, had given out that he was going to be translated to heaven, and was actually careening through the air in a chariot drawn by demons when Peter and Paul knelt down and prayed, and their prayers brought him to earth a mangled corpse.

The apocryphal Acts of Peter gives a more elaborate tale of Simon Magus ' death.

The Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions and Homilies give an account of Simon Magus and some of his teachings in regards to the Simonians.

The encounter between both Dositheus and Simon Magus was the beginnings of the sect of Simonians.

The Apostles Paul and Peter confront Simon Magus before Nero, as painted by Filippino Lippi.

Simon's magical powers are juxtaposed with Peter's powers in order to express Peter's authority over Simon through the power of prayer, and in the 17th Homily, the identification of Paul with Simon Magus is effected.

The anti-Pauline context of the Pseudo-Clementines is recognised, but the association with Simon Magus is surprising since they have little in common.

However the majority of scholars accept Baur's identification, though others, including Lightfoot, argued extensively that the " Simon Magus " of the Pseudo-Clementines was not meant to stand for Paul.

* Simon Magus in popular culture

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* Jacob This site offers biographical information about Simon

The CD-ROM version of the sequel Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe offers the option to switch between subtitles or the soundtrack.

They have noted the film's many sympathetic portrayals of Jews: Simon of Cyrene ( who helps Jesus carry the cross ), Mary Magdalene, the Virgin Mary, St. Peter, St. John, Veronica ( who wipes Jesus ' face and offers him water ), and several Jewish priests who protest Jesus ' arrest during Caiaphas's trial of Jesus.

Constantly ranked as a top business school worldwide ( see Rankings below ), the Simon School offers full-time, part-time, and executive ( based in either Rochester or Switzerland ) MBA programs, as well as Master of Science ( MS ) programs.

Simon offers MS programs in Accountancy, Finance, General Management, Information Systems Management, Manufacturing Management, Marketing, Medical Management, and Service Management.

As a business school with an outstanding history of academic research, the Simon School offers an extensive PhD program with a variety of concentrations.

Introduced in 1965, the Simon PhD program offers students an intentionally small, highly-selective academic environment that is anchored by a world-class research faculty.

In his 2011 review of The Tell-Tale Brain, Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Center at Cambridge University, states that " As an explanation of autism, the Mirrors theory offers some tantalizing clues ; however, some problematic counter-evidence challenges the theory and particularly its scope.

* Hooper, Simon ( October 21, 2004 ) Brain chip offers hope for paralyzed CNN

He is one of the first of the roommates to warm up to Simon as he offers him wine if Simon can fix his van.

The Rivière à Simon offers enjoyable canoeing and kayaking all the way down to Christieville and beyond.

The stories are therefore available to read on Simon Bucher-Jones ' blog, and he is open to re-print offers.

Simon told the audience that she removed the words " the whores " and altered the song to say, " I get no offers, just a come-on from toy stores on Seventh Avenue.

* The John E. Simon School of Business, named after the late St. Louis philanthropist, offers programs in accounting, marketing, e-business, business administration, information systems, and other areas of business studies.

In his book The Ultimate Resource Julian Simon offers view that scarcity of physical resources can be overcome by human mind.

The International Society of Arachnology offers a Simon Award recognising lifetime achievement.

Simon enters a pawn shop and attempts to pawn his belongings, but the broker offers very little for what he has.

* In the movie, Annie Hall, Los Angeles producer Tony Lacy ( played by Native New Yorker Paul Simon ) tempts the title character with offers of stardom, inducing her to relocate from New York to Los Angeles, or " Munchkinland ", as her boyfriend, Alvy Singer ( played by Woody Allen ), describes it.

# " Crypto-Schmittianism " This article by Simon Critchley, published in 2005, offers a useful preamble to Critchley's position ( s )

The Book of Acts portrays the disciples of John as eventually merging into the followers of Jesus ( Acts 18: 24-19: 6 ), a development not reported by the Gospels except for the early case of Andrew, Simon Peter's brother ( John 1: 35-42 ).

Simon is there made to maintain that he has a better knowledge of the mind of Jesus than the disciples, who had seen and conversed with Him in person.

Here the disciples and women wait and they gave themselves up to constant prayer: " And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

" This might indicate that the epithet be applied posthumously by the remaining disciples, but Joan E. Taylor has argued that it was a descriptive name given to Judas by Jesus, since other disciples such as Simon Peter / Cephas ( Kephas

According to some Muslim traditions, Jesus was replaced by a double ; others suggest it was Simon of Cyrene, or one of the disciples such as Judas Iscariot.

Muslim exegesis and Qur ' an commentary, however, names them and includes Simon amongst the disciples.

Capernaum has no obvious advantages over any other city in the area, so he probably chose it because it was the home of his first disciples, Simon ( Peter ) and Andrew.

And supper being come, the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver Him up, Jesus, knowing that all things the Father hath given to Him — into His hands — and that from God He came forth, and unto God He goeth, doth rise from the supper, and doth lay down his garments, and having taken a towel, he girded himself ; afterward he putteth water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which he was being girded.

In Matthew, at the beginning of Jesus ' ministry, when calling his earliest disciples Simon ( Peter ) and Andrew, he says to them, " Follow me and I will make you fishers of men " ( Matthew 4: 19 ).

Peter frightens away Simon's disciples by what are simply lies, and he sends Faustus to Antioch to unsay in the person of Simon all the abuse Simon has been pouring on the Apostle there.

Consequently, it is not astonishing to find that Simon and his disciples represent not St. Paul, but Iamblichus.

A Simon who is referred to as " the Zealot " is found among the disciples of Jesus.

Later on, John Crook who formed the Western Chan Fellowship, and several other Western disciples of Master Sheng Yen, such as Simon Child, Max Kalin, and Zarko Andricevic.

Ben Azra, Simon the Pharisee, Cleopas, and Jairus decide to invite Jesus and his disciples to their house and question him.

Verses 18 to 22 describe the calling of the first four fishermen, who become his first disciples: Simon Peter, Andrew, James, and John.

Jesus has just recruited Simon Peter and Andrew as disciples.

Luke's very different description of the calling of the disciples notes that James and John were partners with Simon and Andrew, the Gospel of Matthew never mentions any link between the two pairs.

After recruiting Simon Peter and Andrew as disciples Jesus encountered the brothers James and John and their father Zebedee.