(At the beginning there were only two types of people the Jews (chosen-ones)
and the Gentiles (non-Jews). Many Jews, but not all Jews, were the original believers and followers of
Lord Jesus of Nazareth. Well after Jesus’s death by crucifixion and his resurrection
one of the apostles, Peter, famously baptised Roman Centurion Cornelius and his Gentile household with Holy Spirit as guided
by the Lord in Peter’s and Cornellius’s visions through Lord’s angels. The
events were recorded in Bible’s Acts 9, 10, and 11.)
Acts 9, 32 As Peter traveled about the
country, he went to visit the Lord’s people who lived in Lydda. 33 There he
found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight
years. 34 “Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and roll
up your mat.” Immediately Aeneas got up. 35 All those who lived in Lydda and
Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.
36 In Joppa there was a disciple named
Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good and helping
the poor. 37 About that time she became sick and died, and her body was washed
and placed in an upstairs room. 38 Lydda was near Joppa; so when the disciples
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 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;
then he got down on his knees and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he
said, “Tabitha, get up.” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up.
