23And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
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Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. …
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: …
And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-31)Luke here makes no mention of Paul’s journey into Arabia, which he tells us himself was immediately after his conversion, Gal. 1:16 , 17 . As soon as God had revealed his Son in him, that he might preach him, he went not up to Jerusalem , to receive instructions from the apostles (as any other convert would have done, that was designed for the ministry), but he went to Arabia, where there was new…
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