Acts 8:9

First Nations Version

In that same village there was a man named Man Who Hears (Simon), who had practiced bad medicine and had made himself out to be someone great.

Cross References

Acts 13:6

They traveled the whole island as far as Foaming Water (Paphos). There they met a man named Son of He Sets Free (Bar-Jesus), a Tribal Member and false prophet who practiced bad medicine.

Acts 5:36

Remember when Flows with Water (Theudas) made himself out to be a great one, with a following of four hundred men? He was killed, and all his followers were scattered and came to nothing.

John 7:18

The one who represents himself is seeking his own honor. The one who represents the one who sent him is true and upright, and there is nothing false in him.

Acts 8:11

His reputation came from the bad medicine he amazed them with.

Revelation 22:15

Outside the gates are wild-dog people, bad-medicine people, the sexually impure, those who murder, the ones who pray to spirit-images, and all who love to speak lies.

2 Peter 2:18

With empty boasts and puffed-up words, they prey on people’s weak human desires and lure them back into the wrong ways of those they have just escaped from.

2 Timothy 3:5

Stay clear of people like this, for they make a big show of being spiritual but deny its true power.

2 Timothy 3:2

People will love only themselves and possessions. They will be puffed up, big-headed, troublemakers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, and unspiritual.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will speak out against and consider himself to be greater than all the so-called powerful spirit-beings and all that is seen as sacred or holy. He will even set himself up in Creator’s sacred lodge and represent himself as the Great Spirit.

Acts 13:8

But the bad medicine man, who was also called Wise One (Elymas) in the local language, opposed them and tried to turn the official from believing their message.