Catholic Public Domain Version
"Now there were plenty of lamps in the upper room, where we were gathered. "
— Acts 20:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.”
“And there were many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered together. ”
“There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.”
“(Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)”
“And there were a great number of lamps in the upper chamber where we were assembled.”
“And there were a number of lights in the room where we had come together.”
“And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.”
These, after they had gone ahead, waited for us at Troas.
Yet truly, we sailed from Philippi, after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we went to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
Then, on the first Sabbath, when we had assembled together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to set out the next day. But he prolonged his sermon into the middle of the night. The expression “first Sabbath” refers to Easter Sunday, the commemoration of the first Christian Sabbath. In the year in question, Easter Sunday was celebrated some 12 (5 + 7) days or more after “the days of Unleavened Bread”, which refers to Passover. It is unclear how Easter Sunday was calculated at that early time in the Church, but it did not always coincide with Passover.
Now there were plenty of lamps in the upper room, where we were gathered.
And a certain adolescent named Eutychus, sitting on the window sill, was being weighed down by a heavy drowsiness (for Paul was preaching at length). Then, as he went to sleep, he fell from the third floor room downward. And when he was lifted up, he was dead.
When Paul had gone down to him, he laid himself over him and, embracing him, said, “Do not worry, for his soul is still within him.”
And so, going up, and breaking bread, and eating, and having spoken well on until daylight, he then set out.