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Acts 20:8
Acts 20:8 is verse 8 of Acts chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
King James Version
And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
World English Bible
There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.
TR reads “they” instead of “we”
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Acts 20:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days.
7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.
8 Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
9 And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.
10 But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, and embraced him. “Do not be alarmed!” he said. “He is still alive!”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Acts 1:13When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.
Luke 22:12And he will show you a large upper room, already furnished. Make preparations there.”