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If you wish to learn, I will instruct you when you come, and I will allow you to examine me as you wish, without contentiousness. And Simon said: I will do as I see fit. And having said this, he departed. But of those who had entered with him, no one went out with him, but falling at Peter's feet, they begged to receive forgiveness for having been carried away by Simon and to be accepted as they repented. But Peter, having received both those who repented and the other crowds, laid his hands on them, praying and healing those of them who were suffering, and thus dismissing them, he commanded them to hasten around dawn. And having said this and gone in with his companions, as evening fell he did the usual things for the pressing need of rest.