Paul’s Farewell Visit to Troas

⁷ On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul began to address the people.^[a] Since he intended to leave the next day, he went on speaking until midnight. ⁸ Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. ⁹ A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, began to sink off into a deep sleep as Paul kept speaking longer and longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead. ¹⁰ But Paul went down, bent over^[b] him, took him into his arms, and said, “Stop being alarmed, because he’s still alive.” ¹¹ Then he went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. He talked with them for a long time, until dawn, and then left. ¹² They took the young man away alive and were greatly relieved.