Acts 9:36-38

EasyEnglish Bible

³⁶ There was a woman called Tabitha who lived in Joppa.^[a] She was a believer. In the Greek language, her name was Dorcas, which means ‘deer’.^[b] She was always doing good things to help people. She gave poor people the things that they needed.

³⁷ Dorcas became very ill and then she died. Women washed her body and they put it in a room upstairs. ³⁸ Joppa was not very far from Lydda. The believers in Joppa heard that Peter was in Lydda. So they sent two men to go and to tell him, ‘Please hurry and come to Joppa.’