2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.) Much more am I His servant; serving Him more thoroughly than they by my labours, and more thoroughly also by my imprisonments, by excessively cruel floggings, and with risk of life many a time.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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.
24From the Jews I five times have received forty lashes all but one.
Cross References
Acts 14:19But now a party of Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and, having won over the crowd, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, believing him to be dead.
Acts 20:23except that the Holy Spirit, at town after town, testifies to me that imprisonment and suffering are awaiting me.
Acts 24:26At the same time he hoped that Paul would give him money; and for this reason he sent for him the oftener to converse with him.
Acts 27:1Now when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they handed over Paul and a few other prisoners into the custody of Julius, a Captain of the Augustan battalion;
Acts 28:30After this Paul lived for fully two years in a hired house of his own, receiving all who came to see him.
1 Corinthians 3:5What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just God's servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted power to each, you accepted the faith.
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 →