And when they came, they went up into the upper room where staid Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the [brother] of James.

And there was a man by the name of Simon who formerly practised magic in that city, and astonished the nation of Samaria, saying that he was some great person,

And Simon also himself believed, and being baptized attended constantly on Philip; and beholding the mighty works and miracles that were performed, he was astonished.

And Simon seeing that the Holy Spirit was given by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, offered them money,

And Simon answered and said, Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have said may come upon me.

And Peter continued many days at Joppa with one Simon a tanner.

And now send men to Joppa and call for a certain Simon who is called Peter;

he lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea.

And while Peter doubted with himself what the vision which he had seen meant, behold, even [then] the men sent by Cornelius, having inquired for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

and calling aloud asked if Simon who was called Peter lodged there.

Send therefore to Joppa and call Simon who is called Peter; he lodges at the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who when he has come will speak to you.

And he told us how he had seen the angel in his house standing and saying to him, Send to Joppa and call Simon who is called Peter,

And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas and Simeon called Niger [the black], and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

Simeon has related how God first visited the gentiles to take a people for his name.