Acts 20:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

(Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 1:13 : 13 When they had entered Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James were there.
  • Luke 22:12 : 12 Then he will show you a large furnished room upstairs. Make preparations there.”

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    5These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

    6We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

    7On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people, and because he intended to leave the next day, he extended his message until midnight.

  • Acts 20:9-12
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    9A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

    10But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, put his arms around him, and said,“Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!”

    11Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

    12They took the boy home alive and were greatly comforted.

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    11Great fear gripped the whole church and all who heard about these things.

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    27When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.

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    27Peter continued talking with him as he went in, and he found many people gathered together.

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    13When they had entered Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James were there.

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    15In those days Peter stood up among the believers(a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

  • Acts 20:36-37
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    36When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.

    37They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,

  • Mark 2:2
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    2So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

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    17When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

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    29Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

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    21Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

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    46Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

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    55When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.

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    12Then he will show you a large furnished room upstairs. Make preparations there.”

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