The ancient Mediterranean port of Israel (modern Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv-Jaffa). Joppa features in three significant biblical episodes. (1) Jonah fled the LORD's commission by descending to Joppa and sailing for Tarshish (Jonah 1:3). The downward motion of his rebellion is itself a moral marker. (2) Cedars from Lebanon for both Solomon's temple (2 Chr 2:16) and the second temple (Ezra 3:7) were floated by sea to Joppa for overland transport to Jerusalem. (3) Most importantly, in Acts 9-10, Joppa is where Peter raised Tabitha from the dead (Acts 9:36-43) and where he received the threefold rooftop vision of the great sheet descending (Acts 10:9-16) that opened his understanding to the Gentile mission: What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. From Joppa Peter went to Cornelius' house at Caesarea, where the Spirit fell on the Gentiles, sealing the church's expansion beyond Israel. Joppa is therefore one of the geographic hinges of Christian salvation history.