Eutychus
“Fortunate, of good fortune”
Summary
A young man of Troas who fell from a third-story window while Paul was preaching late into the night and was miraculously restored to life by the apostle.
☩The Incident
During Paul's final journey to Jerusalem, the Christians at Troas gathered on the first day of the week to break bread. Because Paul was leaving the next day, he prolonged his teaching until midnight. The upper room was crowded and filled with the smoke of many lamps. A young man named Eutychus was sitting in the open window and, overcome by sleep during the lengthy discourse, fell from the third story. He 'was taken up dead'—the physician Luke, who was present, uses precise medical language indicating actual death, not mere unconsciousness.
☩Restoration to Life
Paul went down, fell upon the youth, and embraced him—reminiscent of the prophets Elijah and Elisha raising the dead. Paul then assured the distressed congregation, 'Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.' The meeting resumed, bread was broken, and conversation continued until dawn. As Paul departed in the morning, the young man was brought to him alive and well, to the great comfort of all present.
Related Verses1 mention
Acts· 1 verse
References
- 1.James Orr (ed.), "Eutychus," in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, vol. II (Howard-Severance Company, 1915).
- 2.Unknown source, "Eutychus."
- 3.Andrew Robert Fausset, "Eutychus," in The Englishman's Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopædia (Hodder & Stoughton, 1878).