2 Corinthians 11:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

2 Corinthians 11:24 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 13:9
But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
Deuteronomy 25:2-3
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. …
Matthew 10:17
But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-33)

Here the apostle gives a large account of his own qualifications, labours, and sufferings (not out of pride or vain-glory, but to the honour of God, who had enabled him to do and suffer so much for the cause of Christ), and wherein he excelled the false apostles, who would lessen his character and usefulness among the Corinthians. Observe, I. He mentions the privileges of his birth (2 Cor. 11:22),…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. De 25:3 ordained that not more than forty stripes should be inflicted To avoid exceeding this number, they gave one short of it: thirteen strokes with a treble lash [Bengel]. This is one of those minute agreements with Jewish usage, which a forger would have not been likely to observe.