Acts 9:24
But their treachery was showed to Shaol, which they sought to do to him; and that they kept the gates of the city day and night to kill him.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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
23And when days were many to him there, the Jihudoyee wrought treachery against him to kill him.
25Then the disciples set him in a pannier, and dismissed him from the wall by night.
Cross References
Acts 14:5But there was made a movement by the Gentiles and by the Jihudoyee and their chiefs to maltreat them, and to crush them with stones.
Acts 20:3and was there three months. But the Jihudoyee wrought treachery against him, when he was about to go into Syria, and had thought to return into Makedunia.
Acts 23:12AND when it became morning, men of the Jihudoyee gathered and bound a vow upon themselves, that they would not eat or drink till they had killed Paulos.
Acts 25:3asking of him this favour, that he would bring him to Urishlem, while they would act treacherously in the way by killing him.
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 →