Acts 9:24
but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:
Revised Version 1895
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 many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel together to kill him:
25but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
Cross References
Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a device, which they are not able to perform.
Proverbs 24:15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Acts 14:5And when there was made an onset both of the Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to entreat them shamefully, and to stone them,
Acts 20:3And when he had spent three months there, and a plot was laid against him by the Jews, as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
Acts 23:12And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Acts 25:3asking favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying wait to kill him on the way.
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 →