Acts 20:9

World English Bible (2000)

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

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  • 1 Kgs 17:19 : 19 He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.
  • Jonah 1:5-6 : 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep. 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish."
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Mark 9:26 : 26 Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead."
  • Mark 13:36 : 36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
  • Acts 14:19 : 19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 84%

    10 Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don't be troubled, for his life is in him."

    11 When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

    12 They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.

    13 But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.

  • Acts 20:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7 On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

    8 There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.

  • Acts 5:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

    6 The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.

  • Acts 5:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10 She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

    11 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

  • 68%

    19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

    20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

  • Acts 14:8-10
    3 verses
    67%

    8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

    9 He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,

    10 said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" He leaped up and walked.

  • 29 He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

  • 30 But God raised him from the dead,

  • 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

  • 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.

  • 65%

    29 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

    30 All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

  • 21 When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.

  • 65%

    36 When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

    37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,

  • 17 "It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,

  • 11 The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

  • Luke 7:14-15
    2 verses
    64%

    14 He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"

    15 He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

  • 21 unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"

  • 19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

  • 27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

  • 22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"

  • 40 Peter put them all out, and kneeled down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

  • 24 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

  • 6 But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

  • 18 So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you."

  • 33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

  • 14 But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon.

  • 4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

  • 33 Thus Paul went out from among them.

  • 30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

  • 64%

    18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

    19 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

  • 32 When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.

  • Mark 9:26-27
    2 verses
    64%

    26 Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead."

    27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

  • 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

  • 39 When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."

  • 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

  • 25 They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn't open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened [them], and behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.