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Acts 11:5
I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
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Gill's Exposition
I was in the city of Joppa,.... And so it is called by Josephus (w), and in the Apocrypha:
"And he pitched his tents against Joppa: but; they of Joppa shut him out of the city, because Apollonius…
The preaching of the gospel to Cornelius was a thing which we poor sinners of the Gentiles have reason to reflect upon with a great deal of joy and thankfulness; for it was the bringing of light to us…
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