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Before I step off my last Scripture reference, Acts 20:7 I must say I expressed the Perfect-Participle connotation of the Greek ‘synehgmenohn’ not that well. ‘Having been assembling’ doesn’t make good sense. There seems to be conflict between the Passive and the Active ‘feel about’ the term. Maybe I should have said ‘having had assembling’ or ‘having been assembled’, as does Marshall in the Nestle Interlinear NT. However, the idea is as the Grammars say, to convey the idea of the presently ongoing result of a past finished act. I repeat, ‘synehgmenohn’ is NOT the Verb of the sentence and must not be so translated as to replace the true Predicative Verb , “conversed” - ‘dielegeto’.

Better, but to put it in our English language, "they assembled on the first day of the week to bread bread (the Lord's supper),and continuing Paul "dielegeto" (preached, taught, conversed, lectured, talked - and other terms in English to express speaking) until midnight that day (Sunday - the first day of the week) as he was to leave the next morning."

While the above is not Biblical Scripture, it is what Acts 20:7 seems to tell us. You agree with that?