Acts 20:10

But Paul, going down, fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

In Context

9And a certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, being overwhelmed by a deep sleep. While Paul was speaking for a while longer, having been overwhelmed by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

11And going up and breaking bread and eating, and talking for a considerable time, until daybreak, thus he departed.

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Cross References

Mark 5:39And when He went in, He said to them, “Why are you making such commotion and weeping? The child is not dead, but she is asleep.”

John 11:11These things He said, and after this He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awaken him.”

Matthew Henry on Acts 20:8-13

Paul Preaches at Troas; The Recovery of Eutychus. 7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. 8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. 9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was… Read the whole commentary →

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