Acts 8:11

And to him they had regard Read, And they gave heed to him. This is an instance of that fondness for change of expression which is so marked a feature of the A. V. The word in the original is exactly the same as in the preceding verse.

of long time he had bewitched[amazed] them with sorceries His birthplace was in Samaria, and it is most probable that he had lived there a great part of his life. Tradition (Clement. Hom.ii. 22) makes him to have been educated in Alexandria, but he is also said to have been a pupil of Dositheus a Gnostic teacher in Samaria, so that he had probably been but a short time away from his native country.