Acts 20 CEB (Common English Bible)

Here we have a lot of pole traveling a lot of traveling a lot of sailing a lot of saying goodbye a lot of talking and in the middle is this wild story of a resurrection encounter where Paul shows some self to be a very long winded speaker. I don’t know if you’ve noticed throughout the book of acts that Paul seems always ready to speak. They called him Hermes because he was the main speaker when they say does anybody wanna talk? Paul is ready to talk, but when the evil spirit talks through the little girl, these people are servants of the most high God Paul gets annoyed with that and cast the demon out of her. Obviously, it’s a great thing to have a demon cast out of a person. But here we have Paul talking so incredibly long that it put somebody to sleep and they die from falling out of a window wow what a wild wild story I can’t imagine the annoyance the frustration. I know that I myself and many people get frustrated with long winded preachers who can’t shut up Paul just kept talking. What kind of emotions did these people feel when the young man died oh my goodness how annoyed how scared how sad then for Paul to go and raise him from the dead then Paul goes back upstairs eats then he keeps talking I imagine the people around Utica were like either. No, you don’t need to go upstairs Utica, you can juststay down here or at least Atticus do not sit by that window. Absolutely not no way Jose.