2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above them: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
24Of the Jews five times I have received forty stripes save one.
Cross References
Acts 14:19Then came the Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and gaining over the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.
Acts 20:23only this, that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and tribulation await thee.
Acts 24:26Indeed he had also entertained hope that money would be given him by Paul, in order to release him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him.
Acts 27:1NOW as it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan cohort.
Acts 28:30But Paul abode two whole years in his own hired apartment, and received all who came to him,
1 Corinthians 3:5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but the ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each of us?
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 →