Acts 20:11

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

Acts 20:11 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 20:11

When he therefore was come up again
Into the upper room, where he was before, and where the disciples were gathered together:

and had broken bread and eaten;
administered the Lord's supper, and also eat for his bodily refreshment:

and talked a long while:
about the ordinance and the doctrines of the Gospel, and spiritual experience, and such like divine things:

even till break of day;
not knowing when to leave off:

so he departed;
without taking any rest; though before he departed, what follows was done; it was at this time he left his cloak, books, and parchments here, ( 2 Timothy 4:13 ) .

Acts 20:11 In-Context

9 And a certain young man {named} Eutychus who was sitting in the window was sinking into a deep sleep [while] Paul was conversing at length. Being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

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.

Footnotes

• [a] *This participle and the previous one ("went up") have been translated as finite verbs in keeping with English style
• [b] *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had eaten") which is understood as temporal