While they had found the goal barred securely and the guards posted at the doors, yet, on opening them, they had not found any one inside.

The passage of Scripture which he was reading was this--'Like a sheep, he was led away to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in the hands of its shearer, so he refrains from opening his lips.

But his disciples let him down by night through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.

And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, was gradually overcome with great drowsiness, as Paul continued his address. At last, quite overpowered by his drowsiness, he fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.