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Now why it's a dumb thing to do, but why did Simon do that? Well, remember the first part of the the story? Simon was a magician in Samaria whom people paid to commune with demonic forces and do things for them. Right? So he just came from a world where these signs and wonders were a commodity to be sold and to be traded. Right? So is it all that crazy that as a new dumb convert, a baby Christian, that he might look at the apostles and go, hey, sell me that. I wanna be able to do that. That looks cool. Right?