009:033 There he found a man of the name of Aeneas, who for eight
years had kept his bed, through being paralysed.
009:034 Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you.
Rise and make your own bed." He at once rose to his feet.
009:035 And all the people of Lud and Sharon saw him; and they turned
to the Lord.
009:036 Among the disciples at Jaffa was a woman called Tabitha, or, as the name may be translated, `Dorcas.' Her life was wholly devoted to the good and charitable actions which she was constantly doing.
009:037 But, as it happened, just at that time she was taken ill and died. After washing her body they laid it out in a room upstairs.
009:038 Lud, however, being near Jaffa, the disciples, who had heard that Peter was at Lud, sent two men to him with an urgent request that he would come across to them without delay.
009:039 So Peter rose and went with them. On his arrival they took him upstairs, and the widow women all came and stood by his side, weeping and showing him the underclothing and cloaks and garments of all kinds which Dorcas used to make while she was still with them.
009:040 Peter, however, putting every one out of the room, knelt down and prayed, and then turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, rise." Dorcas at once opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, sat up.
009:041 Then, giving her his hand, he raised her to her feet and, calling to him God's people and the widows, he / 7 gave her back to them alive.
009:042 This incident became known throughout Jaffa, and many believed
in the Lord;