Acts Chapter 20 verses 1 to 15
After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave
of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with
many words, he came into Greece.
When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him
by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through
Macedonia.
These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus
and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and
Trophimus of Asia.
But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.
We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and
came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered
together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next
day, and continued his speech until midnight.
There were many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered
together.
A 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 story, and was taken up dead.
Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don't
be troubled, for his life is in him."
When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked
with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.
They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos, intending to
take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by
land.
When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.
Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next
day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to
Miletus.
Insight- Eutychus was raised from the dead, after he fell down from the third
story of a building where Paul was preaching. God used Paul the Apostle to do
this great miracle at Troas. He exhorted the believers there and broke bread
with them.
Do you break bread often in remembrance of the sacrifice of Jesus
Christ on the cross to achieve salvation for all mankind?
Prayer- Dear Father in heaven, let me always be thankful and
grateful for the price your son Jesus Christ paid for my salvation. In Jesus
name. Amen.
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