They brought the lad alive (ηγαγον τον παιδα ζωντα). Second aorist active indicative of αγω. Evidently the special friends of the …

Not a little comforted. By the fact that he was alive; perhaps also strengthened by the evidence that a miracle had been worked.

There is no hint that Paul took the incident as a rebuke for long-windedness. Nor were the people troubled by the meeting’s length. They were eager…

And they brought the young man alive
Up into the upper room, and presented him alive to the disciples: