Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
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- WEB Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
- BSB So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
- NKJV Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the tunics and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
- NASB So Peter got ready and went with them. When he arrived, they brought him into the room upstairs; and all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing all the tunics and garments that Dorcas used to make while she was with them.
- NLT So Peter returned with them; and as soon as he arrived, they took him to the upstairs room. The room was filled with widows who were weeping and showing him the coats and other clothes Dorcas had made for them.
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Peter came and found the widows mourning, showing the garments Tabitha had made. Her ministry of mercy was lovingly remembered.
Overview
The grieving widows display the very clothes Tabitha had sewn, a moving testimony to her faithful service. Their sorrow honors a life poured out in love for others. This scene of tender memory frames the miracle by which God will reward such devotion and comfort his people.
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- 1 Th 1:3Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
- Prov 31:30–31Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
- Eph 4:28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
- Prov 10:7The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
- Luke 24:44And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
- Acts 9:36–37Now 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.
- Acts 9:41And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
- Acts 6:1And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
- Acts 8:2And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
- Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
- 2 Cor 8:12For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
- 1 Th 4:13But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
- Jas 2:15–17If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
- Matt 25:36–39Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
- Matt 17:17Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
- Matt 26:11For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
- John 12:8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
- John 17:12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
- 2 Sam 1:24Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
- 1 Jn 3:18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
- Eccl 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
- Job 31:19–20If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
- Mark 14:8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
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