30. When the believers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
31. Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
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.