Book of Common Prayer
7-8 n the first day of the week the disciples met together to break bread. Paul was ready to leave the next day. He talked a long time to the people at the meeting until long into the night. They were gathered in an upstairs room with many lights.
9 A young man named Eutychus sat in the window. He became very sleepy. When Paul kept talking so long, Eutychus was very deep in sleep and fell down from the third floor. When the people picked him up he was dead.
10 Paul went down stairs. He lay on him and put his arms around him. `Do not fear,' he said. `He is alive.'
11 Then Paul went upstairs again. He broke bread and ate some food. He talked for a long time, until daybreak. After that, he left.
12 The people took the young man. They were very glad because he was alive.
22 Jesus said to his disciples, `So I tell you this. Do not be troubled about what you will eat to keep alive. Do not be troubled about clothes to wear on your body.
23 Life itself is worth more than food, and the body is worth more than clothes.
24 `Think of the birds. They do not plant, cut, or keep any food. Yet God feeds them. You are worth much more than the birds!
25 `Can any of you live any longer by troubling yourself about these things?
26 If you cannot do a small thing like that, why do you trouble yourself about the other things?
27 `Think about the flowers. See how they grow. They do not work or make cloth. I tell you, King Solomon was a great man. But he was not dressed as fine as one of these flowers.
28 God dresses the grass in the fields so it looks nice. It is in the field one day and the next day it is burned. If God dresses the grass like that, he cares much more that you have clothes to wear. You do not believe in God very much!
29 `Do not keep asking, "What shall we eat?" and, "What shall we drink?" Do not be troubled about that.
30 All the people who are not Jews work for these things. Your Father in heaven knows that you need them.
31 But work for God's kingdom. Then you will have all these things also.'
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