Acts 20:11-13

The Voice

¹¹Then Paul goes back upstairs, celebrates the breaking of bread, and—just as you might guess—keeps on conversing until first light. Then he leaves. ¹²(I should add that Eutychus had been taken home long before, his friends more than a little relieved that the boy was alive!)

This may be one of the strangest stories ever told. Paul was talking about faith while one young man dozed off and fell out the window. Many a pastor has secretly prayed that slumbering congregants would fall out of their chairs. It might have been funny had he not died; instead, it was a scene of great horror. That is, until God used Paul to turn horror into celebration with a death-defying miracle. But the people were so enamored with Paul’s teaching about Jesus that they returned to their conversations, which continued until sunrise.

¹³Again Paul wanted us to split up. He wanted to go by land by himself while we went by ship to Assos.

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