Acts 9:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.

Acts 9:25 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 11:33
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Joshua 2:15
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.
1 Samuel 19:11-12
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. …

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Apostles Basket Decision Devotion Minister, Christian Paul Persecution Rome

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 gro…

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

(vv. 25)

24-25. they watched the gates night and day to kill him--The full extent of his danger appears only from his own account (2Co 11:32): “In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me”; the exasperated Jews having obtained from the governor a military force, the more surely to compass his destruction.