Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
36. There followeth a more famous token of Christ’s power, by how much it is more hard to restore life to a dead body, than to restore health to a man that is sick. But Luke doth first commend the person of Tabitha on whom the miracle was showed, and that with a double title; to wit, that she was Christ’s disciple, and that she...
Here we have another miracle wrought by Peter, for the confirming of the gospel, and which exceeded the former - the raising of Tabitha to life when she had been for some time dead. Here is, I. The life, and death, and character of Tabitha, on whom this miracle was wrought, Act 9:36, Act 9:37. 1.
Commenting on Acts 9:36-43
And it came to pass in those days,.... While Peter was in those parts, and particularly at Lydda, which was near: that she was sick and died; fell ill with some disorder, and died of it: whom, when they had washed; as was the manner of the Jews; and this they did, even though it was on a sabbath day: for so their canon runs...