In an upper chamber (εν υπερωιω). See on 1:13. Also in verse 39. In that house. This service was rendered by the women, though Luk…

Whom, when they had washed. Among most people it has been customary to wash the body before it was buried or burned. They prepared her in …

They laid her in an upper chamber.—This implies some little delay in the usual rapidity of Eastern funerals. As Lydda was…

Joppa (modern Jaffa) was the ancient seaport for Jerusalem. Situated on the coast thirty-five miles northwest of the capital city and ten miles bey…

It happened that she was sick. He says in plain words that she was sick, so that he may more plainly express her death that followed. To t…

And it came to pass in those days
While Peter was in those parts, and particularly at Lydda, which was near:

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Many are full of good words, who are empty and barren in good works; but Tabitha was a great doer, no great talker. Christians who do not have prop…