And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
And Paul went down, and fell on him - just as Elijah did upon the dead son of the woman of Sarepta (1 Kings 17:21), and Elisha upon the dead son of the Shunammite (2 Kings 4:34) - a strong confirmation of the natural sense of the statement that Eutychus was taken up quite dead.
And embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him - not, 'is still in him,' as if never out; but in the same sense in which our Lord said of Jairus' dead daughter, "Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth" (Mark 5:39) It was in him when Paul spoke, as having been restored to him, like the lives of the Zarephite's and Shunammite's sons-no otherwise. (But see further the note at Acts 20:12.)