231 – Healing of Dorcas
Acts 9:32-43
Peter traveled from place to place, preaching the Gospel of Christ and encouraging fellow believers. At one place, he found a paralyzed man who had been lying on his bed for eight years.
Peter said to him, “The Lord Jesus has healed you, so get up.” Immediately the man was healed and got up. People in that area saw the man and heard what happened, and many of them put their faith in Christ.
There was a woman named Dorcas who lived nearby in the city of Joppa. As a disciple of Jesus, she loved people and did good works for them. She became sick and died.
Her friends prepared her body for burial, and placed it in an upstairs room. The disciples in Joppa heard that Peter was in the area, so they sent two men to him. They said, “Please come with us right away.” Peter agreed and went with them.
When he arrived in Joppa, they took him to the house where they had laid the body of Dorcas. He went upstairs and found women weeping for her. When they saw him, they showed him the various robes and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was alive.
Peter sent them out of the room, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Dorcas, get up!”
With that, she opened her eyes and saw Peter. So she sat up. He helped her up from the bed, and then called for the other women. He presented Dorcas to them—alive.
The news of this spread throughout Joppa, and many put their faith in Jesus.
