2 Corinthians 11:33
I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
In Context
32In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
Cross References
Joshua 2:18Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
Acts 9:25but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
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 →