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Acts 9:42

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

This became known all through Jaffa, and numbers of People came to believe in the Lord.

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And, when Jesus heard it, he said: "This illness is not to end in death, but is to redound to the honor of God, in order that the Son of God may be honored through it."

In consequence of this, many of the Jews, who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, learned to believe in him.

Because it was owing to him that many of the Jews had left them, and were becoming believers in Jesus.

But Jesus had proclaimed: "He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who sent me;

And now, send messengers to Jaffa and fetch a man called Simon, who is also known as Peter.

And, after telling them the whole story, sent them to Jaffa.

He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and how the angel had said to him--'Send to Jaffa and fetch the Simon, who is also known as Peter;

The power of the Lord was with them, so that a great number who had learned to believe came over to the Lord's side.

"I was in the town of Jaffa," he said, "and was praying; and, while in a trance, I saw a vision. There was something like a great sail descending, let down by its four corners out of the heavens; and it came right down to me.

And all the inhabitants of Lydda and of the Plain of Sharon saw him, and came over to the Lord's side.

At Jaffa there lived a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which is in Greek 'Dorcas'--a Gazelle. Her life was spent in doing kind and charitable actions.

Jaffa was near Lydda, and the disciples, having heard that Peter was at Lydda, sent two men with the request that he would come on to them without delay.

And Peter stayed some days at Jaffa with a tanner named Simon.




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