Acts 20:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

A young man called Eutychus was sitting on a window sill. While Paul was speaking, the young man got very sleepy. Finally, he went to sleep and fell three floors all the way down to the ground. When they picked him up, he was dead.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:19

“Bring me your son,” Elijah said. Then he took the boy from her arms and carried him upstairs to the room where he was staying. Elijah laid the boy on his bed

Mark 13:36

But if he comes suddenly, don't let him find you asleep.

Mark 9:26

The spirit screamed and made the boy shake all over. Then it went out of him. The boy looked dead, and almost everyone said he was.

Acts 14:19

Some Jewish leaders from Antioch and Iconium came and turned the crowds against Paul. They hit him with stones and dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.

Acts 20:10

Paul went down and bent over Eutychus. He took him in his arms and said, “Don't worry! He's alive.”

Acts 20:7

On the first day of the week we met to break bread together. Paul spoke to the people until midnight because he was leaving the next morning.

Acts 20:8

In the upstairs room where we were meeting, there were a lot of lamps.