They laid her in an upper chamber. — This implies some little delay in the usual rapidity of Eastern funerals. As Lydda was only nine miles from Joppa, the report of Æneas’s recovery might well have travelled from the one city to the other, and led to the hope that the power which St. Peter had thus put forth might extend even to the farther work of raising from the dead.
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Acts 9:37
37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.