Acts 20:12

And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted. AND THEY BROUGHT THE YOUNG MAN ALIVE. There is a manifestly designed contrast between the statement 'taken up dead' (Acts 20:9) and 'brought alive' here, which leaves no reasonable ground to doubt that it was an extinct life which had been restored. AND WERE NOT A LITTLE COMFORTED, [ parekleetheesan (G3870)] - including the additional idea of 'confirmed in the faith.' Continuing Paul's Route to Jerusalem, He Reaches Miletus, whence He Sends for the Elders of Ephesus (20:13-17)...

7-12 Though the disciples read, and meditated, and prayed, and sung apart, and thereby kept up communion with God, yet they came together to worship God, and so kept up their communion with one another. They came together on the first day of the week, the Lord's day. It is to be religiously observed by all disciples of Christ. In the breaking of the bread, not only the breaking of Christ's body for us, to be a sacrifice for our sins, is remembered, but the breaking of Christ's body to us, to be food and a feast for our souls, is signified. In the early times it was the custom to receive the Lord's supper every Lord's day, thus celebrating the memorial of Christ's death. In this assembly Paul preached. The preaching of the gospel ought to go with the sacraments. They were willing to hear, he saw they were so, and continued his speech till midnight. Sleeping when hearing the word, is an e...

NOT A LITTLE COMFORTED - By the fact that he was alive; perhaps also strengthened by the evidence that a miracle had been performed....

EXPOSITION ACTS 20:1 _Having sent for_ …_ and exhorted _for _called unto him, _A.V. and T.R.; _took leave of them, and departed _for _and embraced them, and departed, _A.V. DEPARTED FOR TO GO INTO MACEDONIA. This was St. Paul's purpose, as he had written to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 16:5) from Ephesus. He judged it wise, not only with a view to his own safety and that of his companions, but also for the rest and quiet of the Ephesian Church, to take advantage of the lull in the popular storm, and withdraw into quiet waters before any fresh outbreak occurred. Aquila and Priscilla seem to have left Ephesus about the same time, or soon after, since the Epistle to the Romans found them again at Rome ...

AND THEY BROUGHT THE YOUNG MAN ALIVE,.... Up into the upper room, and presented him alive to the disciples: AND WERE NOT A LITTLE COMFORTED; that is, the disciples, at the sight of the young man, who was taken up dead, not only for his sake, but chiefly because by this miracle the Gospel, which the apostle preached, and who was about to depart from them, was greatly confirmed to them....

ACTS 20:12 Instead of h;gagon de. to.n pai/da zw/nta Dgr reads avspazome,nwn auvtw/n h;gagen to.n neani,skon zw/nta (“And as they were saying farewell, he [Paul] brought the young man alive”). In the interest of making a smoother sequence of events, A. C. Clark 362 transposes (without support from any manuscript) the clauses h;gagen to.n neani,skon zw/nta( kai. pareklh,qhsan ouv metri,wj to the close of ver. Acts 20:10, reading Bezae’s avspazome,nwn de. auvtw/n as ver....

CHAPTER 20 __ 1. Paul in Macedonia (Acts 20:1). 2. His abode in Greece, the visit to Troas and what transpired there (Acts 20:3). 3. The journey from Troas to Miletus (Acts 20:13). 4. The farewell to the Ephesian Elders (Acts 20:17). The record before us is very brief. Some have thought the reason is the fact that the Apostle had turned aside from His given ministry, and therefore the Holy Spirit had nothing to report. We believe that this is correct. The object of the Spirit of God is now to lead us rapidly forward to the last visit of the Apostle to Jerusalem, therefore much is passed over in the untiring s

STORY OF EUTYCHUS. Paul speaks of the first day of the week in 1 Corinthians 16:2, but not of a breaking of bread on that day, which appears here as an established usage (_cf. Acts 24:2_). It is Paul's last interview with these people, and he makes the most of it. The lights may be mentioned because of the accusation in early days that the Lord's Supper was partaken of in darkness and was accompanied by excesses. Eutychus (Acts 20:9) is a common name. The treatment is like that by Elijah (1 Kings 17:21), but the incident may be quite natural: it is reported by an eyewitness. It does not interrupt the proceedings nor, except for a shor

SETTING OUT FOR JERUSALEM (Acts 20:1-6)...

YOUNG MAN. Greek. _pais._ App-108. Not the same as Acts 20:9. A LITTLE. moderately. Greek. _metrios._ Only here. Figure of speech _Tapeinosis._ App-6. COMFORTED. Greek. _parakaleo._ App-134. See Acts 20:2. They were cheered by the miracle and Paul's words....