30. When the believers found out about this, they took Saul to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.
31. And so it was that the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had a time of peace. Through the help of the Holy Spirit it was strengthened and grew in numbers, as it lived in reverence for the Lord.
32. Peter travelled everywhere, and on one occasion he went to visit God's people who lived in Lydda.
33. There he met a man named Aeneas, who was paralysed and had not been able to get out of bed for eight years.
34. “Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ makes you well. Get up and make your bed.” At once Aeneas got up.
35. All the people living in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
36. In Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, who was a believer. (Her name in Greek is Dorcas, meaning “a deer”.) She spent all her time doing good and helping the poor.