Eutychus

Acts 20:7-12 (TNIV) -

7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.8 There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.9 Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.10 Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!”11 Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left.

12 The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.

My thoughts -

There's something here I don't get. Okay, so Eutychus was tired and Paul talked him, quite literally, to death. I get that. Paul rushed down to him and raised him back up. So that's a little rarer than a preacher talking someone to death (ba-dum-ching) but I still get it. But that Eutychus, who had just been literally bored TO DEATH by Paul would, upon being raised back from the dead, continue to talk with Paul until daylight? Well that I don't get. I guess Paul got his attention, though.