Acts 9:32–43

Aeneas and Dorcas

³²As Peter traveled about the country, he went to visit the Lord’s people^x who lived in Lydda. ³³There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years. ³⁴“Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ heals you.^y Get up and roll up your mat.” Immediately Aeneas got up. ³⁵All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon^z saw him and turned to the Lord.^a

³⁶In Joppa^b there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good^c and helping the poor. ³⁷About that time she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upstairs room.^{d 38}Lydda was near Joppa; so when the disciples^e heard that Peter was in Lydda, they sent two men to him and urged him, “Please come at once!”

³⁹Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows^f stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

⁴⁰Peter sent them all out of the room;^g then he got down on his knees^h and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he said, “Tabitha, get up.”ⁱ She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up. ⁴¹He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called for the believers, especially the widows, and presented her to them alive. ⁴²This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord.^{j 43}Peter stayed in Joppa for some time with a tanner named Simon.^k