‘And when he was gone up, and had broken the bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.'

Then Paul returned quietly to the upper room where they continued their fellowship meal and he continued to talk with them until morning. The miracle had given them much to talk about and he knew that he would not see them again for a long time, if ever.

It is interesting to note that the Lord's Supper was taken after midnight. The early church probably did not distinguish ‘days' quite as clearly as we do. ‘The first day of the week' was a guide not a dogma, and we do not even know whether it was reckoned here on Jewish (evening to evening) or Greek reckoning. Originally it would have begun on Jewish reckoning in accordance with the day of resurrection, so that the practise may have continued. If that is so then the whole of the meeting was on the first day of the week. But it is doubtful if the early church would have even thought about it. They would probably simply have seen the first day of the week as extending. (We can only too easily become obsessed with dates and details).

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