we all were,
020:009 and a youth of the name of Eutychus was sitting at the window.
This lad, gradually sinking into deep sleep while Paul
preached at unusual length, overcome at last by sleep,
fell from the second floor and was taken up dead.
020:010 Paul, however, went down, threw himself upon him,
and folding him in his arms said, "Do not be alarmed;
his life is still in him."
020:011 Then he went upstairs again, broke bread, and took some food;
and after a long conversation which was continued till daybreak,
at last he parted from them.
020:012 They had taken the lad home alive, and were greatly comforted.
020:013 The rest of us had already gone on board a ship, and now we
set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there;
for so he had arranged, he himself intending to go by land.
020:014 Accordingly, when he met us at Assos, we took him on board
and came to Mitylene.
020:015 Sailing from there, we arrived the next day off Chios.
On the next we touched at Samos; and on the day
following reached Miletus.
020:016 For Paul's plan was to sail past Ephesus, so as not to spend much
time in the province of Asia; since he was very desirous of being
in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of the Harvest Festival.
020:017 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the Elders of the Church
to come to him.
020:018 Upon their arrival he said to them, "You Elders well know,
from the first day of my setting foot in the province of Asia,
the kind of life I lived among you the whole time,
020:019 serving the Lord in all humility, and with tears, and amid
trials which came upon me through the plotting of the Jews--