When reading Acts chapter 8 the first thing I noticed was Saul making “havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison” (v.3) and then Christians were scattered going everywhere preaching the word (v.4).
I find that remarkable that saints went–but they took the word of God with them and shared that with everyone along the way. One such case was that of Philip who went into Samaria and “…preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ,” (v.12).
From this we can learn the same things that the Samarians learned, including one man named Simon.