Acts 20:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 chamber, where he abode, and laid him on his own bed.
  • Jonah 1:5-6 : 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. 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 gods! Maybe the gods 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%

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

    11When 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.

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

    13But 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%

    7On 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.

    8There were many lights in the upper chamber where we{TR reads "they" instead of "we"} were gathered together.

  • Acts 5:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

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

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

  • Acts 5:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10She 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.

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

  • 68%

    19But 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.

    20But 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%

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

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

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

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

  • 30But God raised him from the dead,

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

  • 60He 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%

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

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

  • 21When 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%

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

    37They 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,

  • 11The 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%

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

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

  • 21unless 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!'"

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

  • 27The 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.

  • 22They 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!"

  • 40Peter 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.

  • 24Behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

  • 6But 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.

  • 18So 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."

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

  • 14But before long, a tempestuous wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon.{Or, "a northeaster."}

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

  • 33Thus Paul went out from among them.

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

  • 64%

    18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also{TR omits "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.

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

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

  • Mark 9:26-27
    2 verses
    64%

    26Having 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."

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

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

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

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

  • 25They 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.