DAILY BIBLE READING June 11th, 2020 ACTS 20:1-16 (GNT)

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INTRODUCTION

Acts 20:1-16: Today’s reading includes the story of a young man named Eutychus who becomes drowsy while Paul is speaking and falls out of a third-floor window and dies, but Paul revives him.

TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: ACTS 20:1A

Paul called together the believers and with words of encouragement said good-bye to them.

TODAY'S READING

To Macedonia and Achaia

1After the uproar died down, Paul called together the believers and with words of encouragement said good-bye to them. Then he left and went on to Macedonia. 2He went through those regions and encouraged the people with many messages. Then he came to Achaia, 3where he stayed three months. He was getting ready to go to Syria when he discovered that there were Jews plotting against him; so he decided to go back through Macedonia. 4Sopater son of Pyrrhus, from Berea, went with him; so did Aristarchus and Secundus, from Thessalonica; Gaius, from Derbe; Tychicus and Trophimus, from the province of Asia; and Timothy. 5They went ahead and waited for us in Troas. 6We sailed from Philippi after the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and five days later we joined them in Troas, where we spent a week.

Paul's Last Visit to Troas

7On Saturday evening we gathered together for the fellowship meal. Paul spoke to the people and kept on speaking until midnight, since he was going to leave the next day. 8Many lamps were burning in the upstairs room where we were meeting. 9A young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window, and as Paul kept on talking, Eutychus got sleepier and sleepier, until he finally went sound asleep and fell from the third story to the ground. When they picked him up, he was dead. 10But Paul went down and threw himself on him and hugged him. “Don't worry,” he said, “he is still alive!” 11Then he went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. After talking with them for a long time, even until sunrise, Paul left. 12They took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.

From Troas to Miletus

13We went on ahead to the ship and sailed off to Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had told us to do this, because he was going there by land. 14When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene. 15We sailed from there and arrived off Chios the next day. A day later we came to Samos, and the following day we reached Miletus. 16Paul had decided to sail on by Ephesus, so as not to lose any time in the province of Asia. He was in a hurry to arrive in Jerusalem by the day of Pentecost, if at all possible.

REFLECT

It may be that the vapors from the many oil lamps that were burning (verse 8) caused Eutychus to become drowsy rather than the length of Paul’s speech. What did Paul do when the young man fell out the window? What do you think Eutychus did when he got home? The incident brings to mind other resuscitation accounts such as Peter’s raising of Tabitha (Acts 9:36-41) and Jesus’s raising of the widow’s son (Luke 7:11-17) and Jairus’s daughter (Mark 5:35-43). What do such accounts teach you about the power of God?

PRAY

Holy God, you are our true source of life, and you promise eternal life to all who believe in your Son, Jesus, who conquered death by sacrificing his life on the cross. I thank and praise you for all your mighty deeds. In Jesus’s name, I pray. Amen.

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