Acts 20:11
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 20:11 in other translations
| BSB | Then Paul went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. And after speaking until daybreak, he departed. |
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| WEB | When he had gone up, had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed. |
| ASV | And when he was gone up, and had broken the bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. |
| YLT | and having come up, and having broken bread, and having tasted, for a long time also having talked--till daylight, so he went forth, |
| DARBY | And having gone up, and having broken the bread, and eaten, and having long spoken until daybreak, so he went away. |
| BBE | And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away. |
| Webster | When he had come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and discoursed a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. |
What does Acts 20:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 20:10-12
10-12. Paul ... fell on him--like Elisha (2Ki 4:34). his life is in him--now restored; compare Mr 5:39.
Barnes' Notes
And had broken bread, and eaten, Had taken refreshment. As this is spoken of Paul only, it is evidently distinguished from the celebration of the Lord's Supper.
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 20:7-12
Though the disciples read, and meditated, and prayed, and sung apart, and thereby kept up communion with God, yet they came together to worship God, and so kept up their communion with one another. They came together on the first day of the week, the Lord's day. It is to be religiously observed by all disciples of Christ. In the breaking of the bread, not only the breaking of Christ's body for us, to be a sacrifice…
Acts 20:11 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 20:11
- Acts 20:7
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
- Acts 20:9
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.
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Context
- Acts 20:10
And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
- Acts 20:11
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 20:12
And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
Acts 20:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Después subiendo, y partiendo el pan, y gustando, habló largamente hasta el alba, y así partió. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et après qu’il fut remonté, et qu’il eut rompu le pain et mangé, et qu’il eut conversé longtemps jusqu’à l’aube, il partit. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und als er hinaufgestiegen war und das Brot gebrochen und gegessen und lange bis zum Anbruch des Tages geredet hatte, reiste er also ab. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ascendens autem, frangensque panem, et gustans, satisque allocutus usque in lucem, sic profectus est. |