43. Peter was engaged, at this time, in general evangelizing among the Jews, adapting his stay at a given point, and his change of place, to the exigencies of the cause. The restoration of Dorcas, doubtless, opened a wide field for usefulness in the surrounding community, (43) "and he tarried many days in Joppa, with one Simon, a tanner." Here the historian leaves him for awhile, and introduces us to the circumstances which removed him from this to another field of labor.

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