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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Saron (Sharon)

Sharon, in its Greek form. Acts 9:35 says the people of Lydda and Saron turned to the Lord when they saw the paralyzed man healed. It is the coastal plain between Joppa and Mount Carmel.

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Sharon, in its Greek form. Acts 9:35 says the people of Lydda and Saron turned to the Lord when they saw the paralyzed man healed. It is the coastal plain between Joppa and Mount Carmel.

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The Greek form of Sharon, the fertile coastal plain of Israel stretching between Joppa and Mount Carmel. Luke uses it in Acts 9:35 to describe the region around Lydda whose residents turned to the Lord after seeing the paralyzed Aeneas healed by Peter.

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  • Acts 9:35

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