Acts 9:24
but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
Berean Standard Bible
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
23After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,
25One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
Proverbs 24:15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.
Acts 14:5But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
Acts 20:3where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
Acts 23:12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 25:3to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along 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 →