2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they ‘Servants of Christ’? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death’s door.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
22Are they Hebrews? So am I! Are they Israelites? So am I! Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I!
24Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty lashes, all but one.
Cross References
Acts 14:19Presently, however, there came some Jews from Antioch, and Iconium who, after they had won over the people, stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the town, thinking him to be dead.
Acts 20:23except that in town after town the Holy Spirit plainly declares to me that imprisonment and troubles await me.
Acts 24:26He was hoping, too, for a bribe from Paul, and so he used to send for him frequently and talk with him.
Acts 27:1As it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were put in charge of a Captain of the Augustan Guard, named Julius.
Acts 28:30For two whole years Paul stayed in a house which he rented for himself, welcoming all who came to see him,
1 Corinthians 3:5What, I ask, is Apollos? or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the Faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.
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 →