Acts 9:24
but their plot was known to Saul. And they watched the gates both day and night so that they might destroy him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
In Context
23And after considerable days were fulfilled, the Jews plotted to destroy him,
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
Proverbs 24:15Lay not in wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Do not destroy his resting place.
Acts 14:5And as a violent movement developed, both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, with their rulers, to denounce and to stone them,
Acts 20:3And having spent three months there, and a conspiracy having developed against him by Jews, intending to go up into Syria, a decision developed to return through Macedonia.
Acts 23:12And when it became day, some of the Jews, having made a conspiracy, put themselves under a curse, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they would kill Paul.
Acts 25:3asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to kill him on the way.
Matthew Henry on Acts 9:24-32
The Jews Plot to Kill Saul; Saul Is Received by the Apostles; Prosperity of the Church. 23 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him: 24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. 25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket. 26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. 27 But… Read the whole commentary →