ACTS 20:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.”
Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate — After talking until daylight, he left — The meal-resumption (eucharistic re-gathering) and continued discourse until dawn mark Paul's pastoral engagement even amid crisis. The continuous teaching reveals missionary dedication.
Church Fathers on Acts 20:11
And, it says, there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. 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. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him, said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. When he therefore had come up again, and had broken bread, and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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