This fellow Simon, you read about him in a few verses earlier, he was a, he was a magician, a so , er a sorcerer, he was the, the wi the witch doctor if you like, if he was in i i in an African situation, there he was, he was the medicine man of the town, of the area  and he too believed and was converted, he was baptized, and he was amazed at the miracles that he'd seen being performed  by Philip through the power of God.