25Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
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And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. …
Commentary
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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