³⁶ In Joppa^(A) there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good^(B) and helping the poor. ³⁷ About that time she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upstairs room.^{(C) 38} Lydda was near Joppa; so when the disciples^(D) heard that Peter was in Lydda, they sent two men to him and urged him, “Please come at once!”

³⁹ Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows^(E) stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

⁴⁰ Peter sent them all out of the room;^(F) then he got down on his knees^(G) and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he said, “Tabitha, get up.”^(H) She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up. ⁴¹ He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called for the believers, especially the widows, and presented her to them alive. ⁴² This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord.^{(I) 43} Peter stayed in Joppa for some time with a tanner named Simon.^(J)

⁷ The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle.^(A) On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.^{(B) 8} Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.^{(C) 9} They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.^{(D) 10} They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.^{(E) 11} They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss,^(F) whose name in Hebrew^(G) is Abaddon^(H) and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).

¹² The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.^(I)

¹³ The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns^(J) of the golden altar that is before God.^{(K) 14} It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels^(L) who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”^{(M) 15} And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released^(N) to kill a third^(O) of mankind.^{(P) 16} The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.^(Q)

¹⁷ The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths^(R) came fire, smoke and sulfur.^(S)

Further Conflict Over Jesus’ Claims

²² Then came the Festival of Dedication^[a] at Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³ and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.^{(A) 24} The Jews^(B) who were there gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”^(C)

²⁵ Jesus answered, “I did tell you,^(D) but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me,^{(E) 26} but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.^{(F) 27} My sheep listen to my voice; I know them,^(G) and they follow me.^{(H) 28} I give them eternal life,^(I) and they shall never perish;^(J) no one will snatch them out of my hand.^{(K) 29} My Father, who has given them to me,^(L) is greater than all^[b];^(M) no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.”^(N)