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• Simon Magus

  Simon Magus is the Samaritan sorcerer who appears in Acts 8. After being baptized, he tried to buy the power to impart the Holy Spirit and was rebuked by Peter. The term "simony," meaning the buying and selling of church offices, is derived from his name.

• Acts 8

  Acts 8 describes the great persecution that followed the martyrdom of Stephen and the scattered believers who preached the gospel wherever they went. It recounts Philip's preaching in Samaria and on the desert road to Gaza, including the accounts of Simon the sorcerer and the Ethiopian eunuch.

• Simony

  Simony is the buying or selling of spiritual things, such as church offices or sacraments, for money or material goods. The term derives from Simon the sorcerer in the Acts of the Apostles.

• Simon the Cananaean

  Simon the Cananaean was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. In Luke and Acts he is called "Simon called Zelotes" (the Zealot), which distinguishes him from Peter, who bore the same name.

• Simon the Tanner

  Simon the tanner was a leather craftsman of Joppa mentioned in Acts 9–10. After raising Tabitha, Peter stayed for many days in Simon's house by the sea, and it was on its housetop, while praying, that Peter saw a vision.

• Simon the Leper

  Simon the Leper was a resident of Bethany in whose house Jesus was dining shortly before His Passion when a woman poured ointment on His head. He is mentioned by name only in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark.

• Simon the Pharisee

  Simon the Pharisee invited Jesus to a meal at his house in Luke 7. When a woman known as a sinner anointed Jesus' feet with ointment, Simon inwardly objected, and Jesus answered him with the parable of the two debtors.

• Simon the Zealot

  Simon was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. Matthew and Mark call him "Simon the Cananaean," while Luke and Acts call him "Simon the Zealot." Both epithets are understood to mean "Zealot" or "one who is zealous."

• Simon of Cyrene

  Simon of Cyrene was the man whom Roman soldiers seized and compelled to carry the cross for Jesus as Jesus was being led away to be crucified. He appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

• Zealots

  The Zealots were Jewish groups in first-century Judea under Roman rule who resisted foreign domination in the name of "zeal" for God and the Law. In the Bible the term appears as "Zelotes," the epithet of Simon, one of the twelve disciples.

• Alabaster Box

  An alabaster box (Korean okhap, 玉盒) is a small stone vessel for holding perfumed ointment. The term is best known from the Gospel accounts of a woman who poured costly ointment from an alabaster box on Jesus.

• Anointing at Bethany

  The anointing at Bethany is the event in which a woman poured costly ointment on Jesus in Bethany, near Jerusalem, a few days before his crucifixion. Jesus said that she had prepared beforehand for his burial.

• Luke 7

  Luke 7 is the chapter in which Jesus heals a centurion's servant in Capernaum, raises a widow's son at Nain, answers a question from John the Baptist, and forgives the sins of a sinful woman in the house of Simon the Pharisee.

• Acts 10

  Acts 10 is the chapter in which Cornelius, a Roman centurion at Caesarea, and the apostle Peter each receive a vision and then meet, after which the Holy Spirit falls on the Gentiles listening to Peter's sermon and they are baptized.

• Spikenard

  Spikenard, or nard, is a costly aromatic ointment made from a plant of the Himalayan region. It is best known as the ointment a woman of Bethany poured on Jesus, and it also appears in the Song of Solomon, where the KJV renders it "spikenard."

• Alexander (Son of Simon)

  Alexander was a son of Simon of Cyrene, the man who carried Jesus' cross, and the brother of Rufus. He is mentioned by name only once, in Mark 15:21.

• Rufus

  Rufus appears in the Gospel of Mark as a son of Simon of Cyrene, the man who carried the cross of Jesus. Scholars differ on whether he is the same Rufus whom Paul greets in Romans 16.

• Fishers of Men

  A phrase Jesus used when He called disciples who were fishermen on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, likening the work of bringing people to God to catching fish. It appears in Matthew 4:19 and Mark 1:17.

• Restoration of Peter

  The restoration of Peter is the event in which the risen Jesus, on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias in Galilee, asked Peter three times, "Lovest thou me?" and entrusted him with the charge "Feed my sheep." It is recorded in John 21.

• Peter

  Peter, originally named Simon, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ. A fisherman from Galilee, he served as a leader of the early church in Jerusalem, and the New Testament books of 1 Peter and 2 Peter bear his name.