Acts 20:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The disciples

1 Corinthians 11:17

To break

And continued

General references

Exodus 20:11

Bible References

The disciples

But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

To break

When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left.

They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and

to prayer.

And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

They began to relate their experiences on the road and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the

bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper,

And continued

And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening.

He read from it before the square which was in front of the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of men and women, those who could understand; and all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

While they stood in their place, they read from the book of the law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.

General references

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.