Book of Common Prayer

³² While Peter was travelling through all the towns, he came to visit God's people who lived in the city of Lydda.

³³ There he saw a man named Aeneas who was sick. He could not stand up. He had been on his bed for eight years.

³⁴ Peter said to him, `Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!' The man got up at once.

³⁵ All the people who lived at Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

³⁶ In the city of Joppa there was a disciple. Her name was Tabitha. That means Dorcas or Gazelle. She did much good work and she gave many things to the poor people.

³⁷ She became sick and died. They bathed her body and put her in a room upstairs.

³⁸ Lydda was near Joppa. When the disciples heard that Peter was at Lydda, they sent two men and asked for him to come quickly.

³⁹ Peter got up and went with them. When he got there, they took him to the room upstairs. Women whose husbands were dead stood there crying. They showed Peter the clothes and coats that Dorcas had made for them while she was with them.

⁴⁰ Peter put them all out. He kneeled down and talked to God. He turned to the body and said, `Tabitha, get up.' She opened her eyes. When she saw Peter, she sat up.

⁴¹ He took her hand and helped her get up. Then he called in God's people and the women, and he gave her back to them alive.

⁴² All over Joppa people heard about this. Many people believed on the Lord.

⁴³ Peter stayed in Joppa for many days. He was with a man named Simon, who made skins into leather.

⁵⁶ Then they went back and got things ready to put on his body. These things were spices that smelled very nice, and sweet kinds of oil. On the Sabbath day they rested as the law said they should.

24 On the first day of the week, early in the morning, the women went to the grave. They took with them the things they had made ready.

² They saw that the stone was rolled away from the grave.

³ So they went in. But they did not see the body of the Lord Jesus.

⁴ They were troubled about this. Then they saw two men standing near them. They were dressed in white clothes.

⁵ The women were afraid and bowed their faces down to the ground. The men said to them, `Why do you look for a living person among dead people?

⁶ He is not here. He has risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee.

⁷ He said that the Son of Man would be given over to bad men. He would be nailed to a cross, and he would rise on the third day.'

⁸ Then they remembered what he had said.

⁹ They left the grave and went back. They told all these things to the eleven disciples and to all the other people.

¹⁰ The women who told these things to the apostles were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women who were with them.

¹¹ But Peter got up and ran to the grave. He bowed down and looked in. He saw the linen clothes lying there, but nothing more. Then he left, wondering about what had happened.