Has anyone ever dozed off during a long talk? Eutychus did, sitting in a window while “Paul was long preaching.” He “sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.” Paul went down and embraced him, saying, “Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.” Then Paul went back up, broke bread, ate, and talked “till break of day.” The story is told plainly and without fuss. Read Acts 20:7-12 for the whole evening and how it ends.
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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.
And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
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.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
Fortunate, (Acts 20:9-12), a young man of Troas who fell through drowsiness from the open window of the third floor of the house where Paul was preaching, and was “taken up dead.” The lattice-work of the window being open to admit the air, the lad fell out and down to the court below. Paul restored him to life again. (Comp. 1 Kings 17:21; 2 Kings 4:34.)
William Smith, 1884
(fortunate), a youth at Troas, (Acts 20:9) who sitting in a window, and having fallen asleep while St. Paul was discoursing, fell from the third story, and being taken up dead, was miraculously restored to life by the apostle.