Passage of the Day - January 18, 2010

Acts 20:1-12

 ¹After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and when he had exhorted them and taken his leave of them, he left to go to Macedonia.

 ²When he had gone through those districts and had given them much exhortation, he came to Greece.

 ³And there he spent three months, and when a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

 ⁴And he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

 ⁵But these had gone on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas.

 ⁶We sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas within five days; and there we stayed seven days.

 ⁷On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.

 ⁸There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered together.

 ⁹And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

 ¹⁰But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, "Do not be troubled, for his life is in him."

 ¹¹When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left.

 ¹²They took away the boy alive, and were greatly comforted.

God's grace extends even to those who sleep during church and are unwise enough to sit in a windowsill listening to a sermon at midnight.  Perhaps there is a deeper meaning to this passage, but how can you not get a kick out of it?  I just read Matthew Henry's commentary and wow does he take a different view!

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