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• Simon the TannerPeople

  Simon the tanner was a leather craftsman of Joppa mentioned in Acts 9–10. After raising Tabitha, Peter stayed for many days in Simon's house by the sea, and it was on its housetop, while praying, that Peter saw a vision.

• JoppaBible

  Joppa was a port city on the Mediterranean coast. In the Old Testament it was the port through which timber for the Temple arrived and the place where Jonah boarded a ship; in the New Testament it was where Peter raised Tabitha from the dead and received the vision that opened the way for the mission to the Gentiles.

• Acts 9Bible

  Acts 9 recounts how Saul, who had been persecuting the church, encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus, was converted, and began to preach the gospel. It also tells how Peter healed Aeneas at Lydda and raised Tabitha at Joppa.

• Acts 10Bible

  Acts 10 is the chapter in which Cornelius, a Roman centurion at Caesarea, and the apostle Peter each receive a vision and then meet, after which the Holy Spirit falls on the Gentiles listening to Peter's sermon and they are baptized.

• Talitha KoumBible

  Talitha koum is the Aramaic phrase Jesus spoke when he raised the dead daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue. It appears in Mark 5:41 and means "Little girl, arise."

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Verses in the King James Version 2, showing 2

• Acts 9:36

  Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.

• Acts 9:40

  But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

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