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Paul’s Final Visit to Troas

On the first day of the week, we gathered with the local believers to share in the Lord’s Supper.[a] Paul was preaching to them, and since he was leaving the next day, he kept talking until midnight. The upstairs room where we met was lighted with many flickering lamps. As Paul spoke on and on, a young man named Eutychus, sitting on the windowsill, became very drowsy. Finally, he fell sound asleep and dropped three stories to his death below. 10 Paul went down, bent over him, and took him into his arms. “Don’t worry,” he said, “he’s alive!” 11 Then they all went back upstairs, shared in the Lord’s Supper,[b] and ate together. Paul continued talking to them until dawn, and then he left. 12 Meanwhile, the young man was taken home alive and well, and everyone was greatly relieved.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:7 Greek to break bread.
  2. 20:11 Greek broke the bread.

On en · de the ho first heis day of the ho week sabbaton, when we hēmeis had gathered synagō to break klaō bread artos, · ho Paul Paulos addressed dialegomai them autos, and since he intended mellō to leave the ho next epaurion day , he continued parateinō his ho message logos until mechri midnight mesonyktion. There were eimi · de a number of hikanos lamps lampas in en the ho upper hyperōon room where hou we had eimi gathered synagō. And de a tis young neanias man , named onoma Eutychus eutychos, sitting kathezomai on epi the ho window thuris ledge , was sinking katapherō into a deep bathus sleep hypnos as Paul Paulos continued to speak dialegomai · ho on and on epi. Overcome katapherō by apo · ho sleep hypnos, he fell piptō from apo the ho third tristegon floor and kai was picked airō up for dead nekros. 10 But de Paul Paulos went down katabainō · ho and threw epipiptō himself on him autos, and kai putting symperilambanō his arms around him, said legō, “ Do not be alarmed thorybeō, · ho for gar his autos life psychē is eimi in en him autos.” 11 Then de Paul went anabainō back upstairs , and kai after he had broken klaō · ho bread artos and kai eaten geuomai, he spoke with homileō them a considerable time epi, until achri dawn augē, and so houtōs he departed exerchomai. 12 And de they took agō the ho boy pais home alive zaō and kai were encouraged parakaleō not ou a little metriōs.

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