*Acts 20:1-12
During a long sermon in Troas, Paul revives a young man named Eutychus who falls asleep and falls out a window.
- Paul’s Departure from Ephesus:
- After the riot subsides, Paul calls the disciples together to encourage them. Then, he departs for Macedonia.
- Ministry in Macedonia and Greece:
- Paul travels through the region, giving much encouragement to the followers there.
- He then spends three months in Greece where he continues to teach and strengthen the believers.
- Plot Against Paul and Change of Travel Plans:
- As Paul prepares to sail back to Syria, he discovers a plot against him by the Jews.
- To avoid the plot, he decides to return through Macedonia. Several companions accompany him, including Sopater, Aristarchus, Secundus, Gaius, Timothy, Tychicus, and Trophimus.
- Travel to Troas and a Week of Teaching:
- Paul and his companions travel to Troas, where they stay for seven days.
- During this time, Paul continues to teach and interact with the believers, taking the opportunity to strengthen and encourage the community.
- Eutychus’s Fall and Miraculous Recovery:
- On the first day of the week, when the believers gather to break bread, Paul speaks to them, intending to leave the next day. He prolongs his speech until midnight.
- In the upper room where they are gathered, many lamps are burning.
- A young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window sill, falls into a deep sleep as Paul talks on and on. Eventually, he falls from the third floor and is taken up dead.
- Paul goes down, throws himself on the young man, and embraces him, declaring, “Don’t be alarmed, he’s alive!”
- They return upstairs, break bread, and continue talking until dawn. Then Paul departs.
- Departure from Troas:
- The believers are greatly comforted by Eutychus’s recovery, and Paul continues on his journey.
20:1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
20:2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece, 20:3 And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
20:4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
20:5 These going before tarried for us at Troas.
20:6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
20:7 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.
20:8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
20:9 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 taken up dead.
20:10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
20:12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.