Acts 9:39
Then Peter, rising up, went with them. And when he had arrived, they led him to an upper room. And all the widows were standing around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and garments that Dorcas had made for them.
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2 Samuel 1:24O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you with scarlet finery, who offered ornaments of gold for your adornment.
Proverbs 10:7The remembrance of the just is with praises. And the name of the impious shall decay.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying.
Matthew 25:36naked, and you covered me; sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.’
Mark 14:8But she has done what she could. She has arrived in advance to anoint my body for burial.
John 12:8For the poor, you have with you always. But me, you do always not have.”
Matthew Henry on Acts 9:37-43
Tabitha Raised to Life. 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. 37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. 38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them. 39 Then Peter arose and… Read the whole commentary →