Acts 20:10

Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”

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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

9A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.

11When he had gone up, had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

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Cross References

2 Kings 4:34He went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm.

Mark 5:39When he had entered in, he said to them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”

John 11:11He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

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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