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He also talked and disputed with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they tried to kill him.
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When the believers found out about this, they took Saul to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.
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And so it was that the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had a time of peace. Through the help of the Holy Spirit it was strengthened and grew in numbers, as it lived in reverence for the Lord.
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Peter traveled everywhere, and on one occasion he went to visit God's people who lived in Lydda.
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There he met a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had not been able to get out of bed for eight years.
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"Aeneas," Peter said to him, "Jesus Christ makes you well. Get up and make your bed." At once Aeneas got up.
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All the people living in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
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In Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, who was a believer. (Her name in Greek is Dorcas, meaning "a deer.") She spent all her time doing good and helping the poor.
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At that time she got sick and died. Her body was washed and laid in a room upstairs.
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Joppa was not very far from Lydda, and when the believers in Joppa heard that Peter was in Lydda, they sent two men to him with the message, "Please hurry and come to us."
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So Peter got ready and went with them. When he arrived, he was taken to the room upstairs, where all the widows crowded around him, crying and showing him all the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was alive.