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and there was a young fellow named Eutychus sitting on the window-sill. As Sha'ul's drash went on and on, Eutychus grew sleepier and sleepier; until finally he went sound asleep and fell from the third story to the ground. When they picked him up, he was dead.
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But Sha'ul went down, threw himself onto him, put his arms around him and said, "Don't be upset, he's alive!"
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Then he went back upstairs, broke the bread and ate. He continued talking with them till daylight, then left.
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So, greatly relieved, they brought the boy home alive.
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We went on ahead to the ship and set sail for Assos, where we were planning to take Sha'ul aboard - he had arranged this because he wanted to go there by land.
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After he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.
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The next day, we sailed from there and arrived off Chios; the following day, we crossed over to Samos; and the day after that, we reached Miletus.
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For Sha'ul had decided to bypass Ephesus on his voyage, in order to avoid losing time in the province of Asia, because he was hurrying to get to Yerushalayim, if possible in time to celebrate Shavu'ot.
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But he did send from Miletus to Ephesus, summoning the elders of the Messianic community.
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When they arrived, he said to them, "You yourselves know how, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia, I was with you the whole time,
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serving the Lord with much humility and with tears, in spite of the tests I had to undergo because of the plots of the unbelieving Jews.