John Gill's Exposition on Acts 9:42

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And it was known throughout all Joppa, etc.] The report of such a miracle, and wrought upon a person of note, was soon spread all over the place, which was very large, for it was a city, as it is called, (<441105>Acts 11:5), and it had, as Josephus f520 says, villages and little towns or cities round about it; all which might go by the name of Joppa, and throughout which the fame of this miracle might pass: and many believed in the Lord; in the Lord Jesus Christ, whom Peter preached, and the saints in Joppa professed, and in whose name, and by whose power, this miracle was done.

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