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Location and Setting

• Joppa was located about thirty-five miles west of Jerusalem on the vital International Coastal Highway that followed the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
• Joppa was a strategic and lively city serving as the port of Jerusalem.
• Travel from Jerusalem to Joppa required a 2300-foot descent from the Hill Country of Judea through the Shephelah to the coastal plain.

Historical and Biblical Significance

• Two critical evangelistic thrusts to the Gentiles began at Joppa, the first by a reluctant Jonah and the second by an empowered Peter (Jonah 1:3; Acts 9:32-42; Acts 10:1-11:5).
• Hiram, King of Tyre, landed cedars of Lebanon at Joppa for the construction of Solomon’s Temple (2 Chr 2:16). Some five hundred years later, cedars of Lebanon again arrived at Joppa for the construction of Zerubbabel’s temple in Jerusalem.
• The Apostle Peter traveled from Lydda to Joppa to raise from the dead a disciple named Tabitha. Peter’s arrival in Joppa began a sequence of events that would lead to the penetration of the Gentile world with the gospel, beginning at the house of Cornelius in Caesarea (Acts 9:32-42).

Bibliography

1. Kelso, J.L. "Joppa" The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible. Ed. Merrill C. Tenney. 5 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1976.