Acts 9:24
but their design was discovered to Saul. And they kept guard at the gates of the city day and night, that they might kill him.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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
23But when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together how to kill him:
25But the disciples taking him by night, got him off through the wall, letting him down in a basket.
Cross References
Acts 14:5And when there was a strong effort made both by the Gentiles and Jews with their rulers to ill-treat and stone them,
Acts 20:3And after three months stay, as the Jews were lying in wait for him, when he was just embarking for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
Acts 23:12Then as soon as it was day, some of the Jews forming a conspiracy, bound themselves under the direst imprecation, declaring that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Acts 25:3begging it as a favour from him, that he would send him back to Jerusalem, lying in wait for him to kill him on the road.
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 →