Acts 9:43
And Peter stayed for several days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.
BSB
ASV
And it came to pass, that he abode many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.
KJV
And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.
Notice the complete absence of arrogance in Peter. Having performed such a great miracle, he seeks lodging not with her nor with any other notable person, but with Simon the tanner; he is not ashamed of lowly people and does not give the great occasion …
He tarried many days in Joppa - Taking advantage of the good impression made on the people’s minds by the miracle, he preached to them the great truths of Christianity, and thus established them in the faith. Simon a tanner - Whether the original word βυρσευς signifies a tanner or a currier, is of little consequence. The person who dealt in the hides, whether of clean or unclean animals, could not be in high repute among the Jews. Even in Joppa, the trade appears to have been reputed unclean; and therefore this Simon had his house by the sea side.
The kneeling became the lowly servant, but not the Lord Himself, of whom it is never once recorded that he knelt in the performance of a miracle. opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up--The graphic minuteness of detail here imparts to the narrative an air of charming reality.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Acts 10:6He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
leads to
How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without…
This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.”
He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.
If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
