Acts 9:41-43
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
41 He gave her his hand and raised her up, and when he had called the holy ones and the widows, he presented her alive. 42 This became known all over Joppa, and many came to believe in the Lord. 43 [a](A)And he stayed a long time in Joppa with Simon, a tanner.
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- 9:43 The fact that Peter lodged with a tanner would have been significant to both the Gentile and Jewish Christians, for Judaism considered the tanning occupation unclean.
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