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What does Acts 20:9 mean?
"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 floor, and was taken up dead."
— Acts 20:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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 room 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 floor, 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.
Explanation
Acts 20:9 describes a moment during Paul's farewell visit to the church in Troas. The believers had gathered on the first day of the week to share a meal and hear Paul teach, and because he intended to leave the next day, he spoke well into the night. A young man named Eutychus was sitting in an open window, likely for air and light in a crowded upper room lit by lamps. As Paul's message stretched on, Eutychus drifted into a deep sleep,
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