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31: 98:. Eutychus fell asleep due to the long nature of the discourse Paul was giving, fell from a window out of the three-story building, and died. Paul then embraced him, insisting that he was not dead, and they carried him back upstairs alive; those gathered then had a meal and a long talk which lasted until dawn. This is related in the 149:
erroneously interprets; 3) Eutychus was then "brought alive" by which the others were "not a little comforted", which words would make no sense if Eutychus had not died; and 4) Luke was fully capable of describing someone as only being "supposedly dead"
162:, but he did not do so here. However, Eutychus' complete recovery from a three-story fall, regardless of the initial result, and Paul's attendance at the scene of the accident, appears to be the impact of the narrative. 660: 331: 224: 792: 363: 716: 1716: 600: 1711: 267: 1409: 1397: 304:
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One researcher compares this memorable accident that happened to Eutychus with the myth of
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Index

Eutychius
Eutyches

/ˈjtɪkəs/
Greek
Troas
St. Paul
New Testament
Acts of the Apostles
William Barclay
F. F. Bruce
Luke
Greek
Greek
Weymouth translation
Greek
Acts 14:19
Elpenor
Odyssey
"Bible Gateway passage: Acts 20:7-12 - King James Version"
"The Case of Eutychus"
the original
Doughty, Darrell J.
MacDonald, Dennis R.
"Luke's Eutychus and Homer's Elpenor: Acts 20:7-12 and Odyssey 10-12"
Institute for Higher Critical Studies
Drew University
The Case of Eutychus
Archived
Wayback Machine

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