The Young Man Who Fell From the Window

Paul is considered to have been one of the great intellectuals of the Western world, even by his detractors.  As brilliant a theologian as he was, he may have been very long-winded and possibly even a boring speaker.

“And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.” Acts 20: 9-11

A fall from a third story window onto to the ground below would, at a minimum, have produced very serious injuries.  Those present thought that Eutychus was dead.

The implication is that Paul brought the young man back from the dead and then diverted the attention of the group.  A confirmed resurrection would have abruptly ended the meeting.  Paul still had much to say.  He talked until dawn.