Acts 8:11 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹¹ And people were paying attention to him because he had been amazing them with his magic for a long time.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ And they were attentive and made much of him, because for a long time he had amazed and bewildered and dazzled them with his skill in magic arts.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And they gave heed to him, because that of long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

Common English Bible

¹¹ He had their attention because he had baffled them with sorcery for a long time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ And they were attentive to him because, for a long time, he had deluded them with his magic.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ And they were attentive to him, because, for a long time, he had bewitched them with his magical practices.

Acts 8:11 Cross References

Acts 13:6

When they had traveled across the whole island they came to Paphos [a town on the island of Cyprus]; [there] they met a certain magician named Bar-Jesus, who was a Jewish false prophet.

Acts 8:9

But a certain man named Simon, from there in Samaria, who had been amazing the people with his magical powers, was claiming to be someone great.

Galatians 3:1

You foolish people [of the churches] of Galatia [Note: This was a province in present-day Turkey], who tricked you? Was not Jesus Christ graphically portrayed before you as being put to death on a cross?