Acts 20
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Acts 20:5-15

5These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

6We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

7On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people, and because he intended to leave the next day, he extended his message until midnight.

8(Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)

9A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

10But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, put his arms around him, and said, “Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!”

11Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

12They took the boy home alive and were greatly comforted.

13We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land.

14When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene.

15We set sail from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. The next day we approached Samos, and the day after that we arrived at Miletus.

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