Tuesday, September 10 ~ Tabitha, rise!​—Acts 9:40.

[GrumpysWife]

Tuesday, September 10

Tabitha, rise!—Acts 9:40.

 

Peter’s resurrection of Tabitha was so convincing that “many became believers in the Lord.” They could testify both in general about the Lord and specifically about Jehovah’s ability to raise the dead. (Acts 9:36-42) Others became eyewitnesses to another resurrection. One time, the apostle Paul was at a meeting in an upper room in Troas, in what is now northwest Turkey. Paul spoke till midnight. A young man named Eutychus was listening, seated at a window. But he dozed off and fell from the third story to the ground below. Perhaps the physician Luke was the first to reach Eutychus, and Luke made a medical assessment: Eutychus was not merely injured and unconscious—he was dead! Paul came downstairs and embraced the corpse, and then he made the dramatic announcement: “He is alive.” What a profound impact that would have had on eyewitnesses! Knowing the facts and grasping that a resurrection had occurred, they “were comforted beyond measure.”—Acts 20:7-12. w17.12 5 ¶10-11

[Stormswift]

This is very interesting ... as for most resurrections the body was complete and in good shape. (well as good as it possibly could be when one is dead).

But,  with Eutychus, for a fall to kill him, there's a high possibility that there was trauma, possibly even visible to the crowd ... so the resurrection would have involved not just bringing life to the boy, but healing and fixing something that may be quite visible to others.

 

Thanks for your faithfulness in posting these each day Sister Vernalee.

[Tortuga]

Heres a little bible trivia.

There are 9 resurrections recorded in the bible including Jesus.

3 were before Jesus

3 were by Jesus

3 were after Jesus (including Jesus)

[S1m0ne]

I can imagine how moving it was to have witnessed such a thing.... reading it over now gives me even more assurance that Jehovah will fix all of our problems, no matter how challenging they may seem.