Bible Verses About Joppa

(which means “gazelle”); she was always doing tzedakah and other good deeds.

It happened that just at that time, she took sick and died. After washing her, they laid her in a room upstairs.

Lud is near Yafo, and the talmidim had heard that Kefa was there, so they sent two men to him and urged him, “Please come to us without delay.”

Kefa got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him into the upstairs room. All the widows stood by him, sobbing and showing all the dresses and coats Tavita had made them while she was still with them.

But Kefa put them all outside, kneeled down and prayed. Then, turning to the body, he said, “Tavita! Get up!” She opened her eyes; and on seeing Kefa, she sat up.

He offered her his hand and helped her to her feet; then, calling the believers and the widows, he presented her to them alive.

This became known all over Yafo, and many people put their trust in the Lord.

Kefa stayed on in Yafo for some time with a man named Shim‘on, a leather-tanner.

The next day about noon, while they were still on their way and approaching the city, Kefa went up onto the roof of the house to pray.

He began to feel hungry and wanted something to eat; but while they were preparing the meal, he fell into a trance

in which he saw heaven opened, and something that looked like a large sheet being lowered to the ground by its four corners.

In it were all kinds of four-footed animals, crawling creatures and wild birds.

Then a voice came to him, “Get up, Kefa, slaughter and eat!”

But Kefa said, “No, sir! Absolutely not! I have never eaten food that was unclean or treif.”

The voice spoke to him a second time: “Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean.”

This happened three times, and then the sheet was immediately taken back up into heaven.

Kefa was still puzzling over the meaning of the vision he had seen, when the men Cornelius had sent, having inquired for Shim‘on’s house, stood at the gate

and called out to ask if the Shim‘on known as Kefa was staying there.