Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁷ On the first day of the week we gathered to break bread. Paul was intending to leave the following morning. He was engaged in discussion with them, and he went on talking up to midnight. ⁸ There were several lamps burning in the upper room where we were gathered. ⁹ A young man named Eutychus was sitting by the window, and was overcome with a deep sleep as Paul went on and on. Once sleep had got the better of him, he fell down out of the third-story window, and was picked up dead.

¹⁰ Paul went down, stooped over him and picked him up.

“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “There is life still in him.”

¹¹ He went back upstairs, broke bread and ate with them, and continued speaking until dawn. Then he left. ¹² They took up the young man alive and were very much comforted.