ACTS 20:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.”
The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted (parakaleō, to comfort or exhort) — Eutychus's recovery and the community's consolation frame the Troas stop as divine vindication of Paul's apostolic presence.
Church Fathers on Acts 20:12
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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