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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.
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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."
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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.
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They had taken the lad home alive, and were greatly comforted.
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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.
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Accordingly, when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.
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Sailing from there, we arrived the next day off Chios. On the next we touched at Samos; and on the day following reached Miletus.
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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.
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From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the Elders of the Church to come to him.
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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,
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serving the Lord in all humility, and with tears, and amid trials which came upon me through the plotting of the Jews--