Acts 20:8
6 And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days.
7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.
Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
9 And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.
10 But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, and embraced him. “Do not be alarmed!” he said. “He is still alive!”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
- KJV
- And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
- WEB
- There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.
- ASV
- And there were many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered together.
- DARBY
- And there were many lights in the upper room where we were assembled.
- BLB
- Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were assembled.
- ÅB
- Det var mange lamper i salen hvor vi var samlet.
- OTB
- Det øvre rommet hvor vi var samlet, var godt opplyst med mange lamper.
- B1930
- Det var mange lamper i salen hvor vi var samlet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 1:13
When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.
Read in contextLuke 22:12
And he will show you a large upper room, already furnished. Make preparations there.”
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