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Acts 20:9-17 English Standard Version (ESV)

9. And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

10. But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”

11. And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.

12. And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.

13. But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.

14. And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene.

15. And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus.

16. For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

17. Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.