7. On the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to leave the next day, preached to them and continued his message until midnight.
8. There were many lamps in the upper room where they were assembled.
9. A young man named Eutychus sat in the window, falling into a deep sleep as Paul spoke for a longer time. Being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.
10. Paul went down and leaned over him, and embracing him said, “Do not be troubled, for he is alive.”
11. When he had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed for a long while until dawn and departed.
12. They took the lad in alive and were greatly comforted.
13. We went ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, intending to take Paul on board there. For he had arranged this, intending to go on foot.
14. When he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene.
15. The day after sailing from there we arrived off Chios. And the next day we crossed over to Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the following day we came to Miletus.
16. Paul had decided to sail by Ephesus, to avoid spending time in Asia. For he was hurrying so he could be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.
17. From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.
18. When they came to him, he said to them, “You know how I always lived among you from the first day that I came to Asia,
19. serving the Lord with all humility and with many tears and trials which befell me through the plots of the Jews.
20. I did not keep from declaring what was beneficial to you, and teaching you publicly and from house to house,