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-# Connecting Statement:
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-This is concludes the part of the story about Simon and the Samaritans.
-
 # testified
 
 Peter and John told what they personally knew about Jesus to the Samaritans.
 
 # spoken the word of the Lord
 
-Here "word" is a metonym for "message." Peter and John explained the message about Jesus to the Samaritans. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
+Peter and John explained the message about Jesus to the Samaritans. 
 
 # to many villages of the Samaritans
 
-Here "villages" refers to the people in them. Alternate translation: "to the people in many Samaritan villages" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
+"to the people in many Samaritan villages"