•  Earthquakes
• Famines
• Pestilences

More Bad News: Relational Disasters … Betrayal

• Parents
• Brothers
• Relatives
• Friends

There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven. [...] You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death.

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• Took Jesus’ Body Down
• Wrapped Jesus’ Body in Linen Cloth
• Placed Jesus’ Body in an New Tomb

Then he took it [Jesus' body] down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid.

Quiet, Simple Acts of Dignity Reflected the Grace He’d Received

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He …

• Went Down
• Threw Himself on the Young Man
• Put His Arms Around Him

Adverbs in Action! Eutychus Falls! No Youtube Video Verification Available at Press Time …

• Picked UP
• Went DOWN
• Threw Himself ON
• Put Arms AROUND

After Confirming Eutychus Was Alive (and/or Actually Resurrecting Him), He …

• Went Upstairs
• Broke Bread
• Ate
• Talked Even Longer (‘til daylight) *
• Left

 * Preachers, huh? What’re ya gonna do?

Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on (emphasis added).* When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!” Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. NIV

Eutychus Falls & Paul Picks Up the Slack. The Apostle Took Personal Responsibility for the Effects of His “on and on” talking …

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• Persecuted (arresting … imprisoning)
• Obtained
• Went (brought … punished)

I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, as also the high priest and all the Council can testify. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished. NIV

Paul’s Past Helped Make the Case for the Credibility of His Conversion to Christ

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