This is the twenty-ninth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. This entry deals with Peter’s missionary travels to Lydda and Joppa and his powerful encounter ...

Freed slaves founded Joppa, named for a city in the Bible, after the Civil War. Residents have always called it Joppee. The biblical place, originally the Canaanite city of Yapu, ...

“We don’t argue too much amongst each other, but the name comes from the Bible, Joppa,” said Harold Arnold, 53. Under his feet, near a shuttered old house and a pile of trash, James Williams ...

Bounded by a rail yard on one side and the Trinity River on the other, Joppa was largely cut off from the rest of the city until a highway bridge was built over the train tracks in 2006.