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39. ἀναστὰς δὲ Πέτρος, and Peter arose. We may he sure that the Apostle knew, by the Spirit, that it would please God to do something for the help of the distress at Joppa when he set out with the messengers.
καὶ παρέστησαν αὐτῷ πᾶσαι αἱ χῆραι κλαίουσαι, and all the widows stood by him weeping. These were the women who, with the dead Dorcas, had been busy in the good works to which they were all devoted. The petition of such a company was sure to have power with the Apostle, and their action shews how they place the good deeds of her whom they had lost far above their own. The χῆραι became a recognized class of women earnest in good works and separate from the world. See the directions concerning them which St Paul gives to Timothy, 1Ti 5:3-5; 1Ti 5:9; 1Ti 5:11; 1Ti 5:16.