In Luke’s formulation, however, he probably had in view the practice of eating daily meals together. ‘Breaking of bread’ simply describes everyday meals by metonymic reference to the initial action by which the head of the household gave the signal to begin the meal.137 This is probably what is in view in the three other references in Acts. In the first two, Paul and his friends break bread on Sunday (20:7), after which Paul goes on speaking till midnight; Eutychus is ministered to after his fall,