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Acts 20:10 β€” Meaning and Application

King James Version

β€œAnd Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing {him} said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.”

Acts 20:10

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8

And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

9

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.

10

And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing {him} said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

11

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.

12

And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

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