Acts 9:24
But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also the gates both day and night, that they might kill him;
Darby Translation
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
23Now when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together to kill him.
25but the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.
Proverbs 24:15Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place.
Acts 14:5And when an assault was making, both of [those of] the nations and [the] Jews with their rulers, to use [them] ill and stone them,
Acts 20:3And having spent three months [there], a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, [the] resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.
Acts 23:12And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.
Acts 25:3asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait 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 →