Joppa

We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”

³⁶ In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which is translated as Dorcas), who was always occupied with works of kindness and charity.

³⁷ At that time, however, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upper room.

³⁸ Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples heard that Peter was there and sent two men to urge him, “Come to us without delay.”

⁴² This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord.

⁴³ And Peter stayed for several days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.

Now send men to Joppa to call for a man named Simon who is called Peter.

He explained what had happened and sent them to Joppa.

So Peter invited them in as his guests. And the next day he got ready and went with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa.

Therefore send to Joppa for Simon, who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’

“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.

He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.

They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.