and how in Damascus he had fearlessly taught in the name of Jesus.
009:028 Henceforth Saul was one of them, going in and out of the city,
009:029 and speaking fearlessly in the name of the Lord. And he often
talked with the Hellenists and had discussions with them.
009:030 But they kept trying to take his life. On learning this,
the brethren brought him down to Caesarea, and then sent him
by sea to Tarsus.
009:031 The Church, however, throughout the whole of Judaea, Galilee
and Samaria, had peace and was spiritually built up;
and grew in numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and receiving
encouragement from the Holy Spirit.
009:032 Now Peter, as he went to town after town, came down also to God's
people at Lud.
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,