2 Corinthians 11:23
If they are ministers of the Messiah, (in defect of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them: in toils more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, in deaths many times.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
24By the Jews, five times was I scourged, each time with forty stripes save one.
Cross References
Acts 14:19But Jews came hither from Iconium and Antioch, and excited the people against them. And they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
Acts 20:23except that the Holy Spirit in every city, testifieth to me and saith: Bonds and afflictions await thee.
Acts 24:26He hoped, moreover, that a present would be given him by Paul; and therefore, he often sent for him, and conversed with him.
Acts 27:1And Festus commanded, respecting him, that he should be sent to Italy, unto Caesar. And he delivered Paul, and other prisoners with him, to a certain man, a centurion of the Augustan cohort, whose name was Julius.
Acts 28:30And Paul hired a house, at his own cost, and resided in it two years; and there he received all that came to him.
1 Corinthians 3:5For, who is Paul, or who is Apollos, but the ministers by whom ye believed, each one as the Lord gave to him?
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 →