Acts 20:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

And they brought the young man alive. There is a manifestly designed contrast between the statement 'taken up dead' (Acts 20:9) and 'brought alive' here, which leaves no reasonable ground to doubt that it was an extinct life which had been restored.

And were not a little comforted, х parekleetheesan (G3870)] - including the additional idea of 'confirmed in the faith.'

Continuing Paul's Route to Jerusalem, He Reaches Miletus, whence He Sends for the Elders of Ephesus (20:13-17)

Acts 20:12

12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.