2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as though I were out of my mind.) I am more. I have been in even more hard work, in far more prisons, in beatings beyond measure, in facing many dangers of death.
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22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
24From Jews I received five times the “forty lashes minus one.”
Cross References
Acts 14:19But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came and persuaded the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, thinking that he was dead.
Acts 20:23except that the Holy Spirit warns to me in every city that chains and sufferings await me.
Acts 24:26At the same time he wanted Paul to give money to him, so he often sent for him and spoke with him.
Acts 27:1When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they put Paul and some other prisoners under the charge of a centurion named Julius of the Imperial Regiment.
Acts 28:30Paul lived for two whole years in his own rented house, and he welcomed all who came to him.
1 Corinthians 3:5Who then is Apollos? Who is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, to each of whom the Lord gave tasks.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:23-33
The Apostle Recounts His Sufferings. ( a. d. 57.) 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeyings often, in… Read the whole commentary →