Acts 20:11 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹¹ After that Paul went upstairs, broke bread and ate [a common meal]. [Following the meal] Paul talked with them for a long time, even until it got daylight, and then he left.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ When Paul had gone back upstairs and had broken bread and eaten [with them], and after he had talked confidentially and communed with them for a considerable time–until daybreak [in fact]–he departed.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And when he was gone up, and had broken the bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Then Paul went back upstairs and ate. He talked for a long time—right up until daybreak—then he left.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ And so, going up, and breaking bread, and eating, and having spoken well on until daylight, he then set out.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Then going up, and breaking bread and tasting, and having talked a long time to them, until daylight, so he departed.

Acts 20:11 Cross References

Acts 2:42

And these [new converts] continued regularly [to listen] to the teaching of the apostles and to share with them; they broke bread [in memory of Jesus] and continued praying.

Acts 20:12

[In the meantime] they brought the young fellow [back upstairs] alive, and were greatly comforted.

Acts 20:7

And on the first day of the week [i.e., Sunday], when we [disciples] had gathered together to break bread [i.e., the Lord’s Supper. See I Cor. 11:20-24], Paul delivered a message that lasted until midnight, [since] he was planning to leave [Troas] the next day.

Acts 20:9

A certain young man, named Eutychus, fell sound asleep while sitting on an [open] window ledge [during the message]. Since Paul’s message continued [until nearly midnight] Eutychus was overcome by sleep and fell from the third floor to his death.