Acts 20:12

12 And they led the youth away alive, and {were greatly} comforted.

Acts 20:12 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 20:12

And they brought the young man alive
Up into the upper room, and presented him alive to the disciples:

and were not a little comforted;
that is, the disciples, at the sight of the young man, who was taken up dead, not only for his sake, but chiefly because by this miracle the Gospel, which the apostle preached, and who was about to depart from them, was greatly confirmed to them.

Acts 20:12 In-Context

10 But Paul went down [and] threw himself on him, and putting his arms around [him], said, "Do not be distressed, for his life is in him."

11 So he went up and broke bread, and [when he] had eaten and talked for a long [time], until dawn, then he departed.

12 And they led the youth away alive, and {were greatly} comforted.

13 But we went on ahead to the ship [and] put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there. For having made arrangements in this way, he himself was intending to travel by land.

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

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "were not moderately"