Acts 9:24
but their plot became known to Saul. They started watching the gates day and night, so that they might kill him;
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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 a good many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him;
25so the disciples took him by night and passed him through the wall, lowering him in a hamper.
Cross References
Acts 14:5But when a plot was hatched by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat and stone them,
Acts 20:3When he had stayed three months, as he was about to set sail for Syria, the Jews made a plot against him, so he decided to return through Macedonia.
Acts 23:12And when it was day, some of the Jews formed a conspiracy by binding themselves with a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they had destroyed Paul.
Acts 25:3begging a favor from him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem—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 →