Acts 20:10

But Paul went down and threw himself on the young man. Taking him in his arms, he said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”

Text-Critical English 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 young man named Eutychus, who was sitting on the window sill, sank into a deep sleep while Paul continued speaking for a long time. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

11Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with the disciples for a long time, until dawn; that was how he departed.

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Cross References

Mark 5:39Then he went in and said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.”

John 11:11After saying this, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

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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