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2 Corinthians 11:23-33
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23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times. 24 Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.[a] 25 Three times I was beaten with a rod.[b] Once I received a stoning.[c] Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea. 26 I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers,[d] in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness,[e] in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers, 27 in hard work and toil,[f] through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.[g] 28 Apart from other things,[h] there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern[i] for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin,[j] and I do not burn with indignation? 30 If I must boast,[k] I will boast about the things that show my weakness.[l] 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying. 32 In Damascus, the governor[m] under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus[n] in order to arrest[o] me, 33 but I was let down in a rope-basket[p] through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 11:24 tn Grk “forty less one”; this was a standard sentence. “Lashes” is supplied to clarify for the modern reader what is meant.
  2. 2 Corinthians 11:25 sn Beaten with a rod refers to the Roman punishment of admonitio according to BDAG 902 s.v. ῥαβδίζω. Acts 16:22 describes one of these occasions in Philippi; in this case it was administered by the city magistrates, who had wide powers in a military colony.
  3. 2 Corinthians 11:25 sn Received a stoning. See Acts 14:19, where this incident is described.
  4. 2 Corinthians 11:26 tn Or “bandits.” The word normally refers more to highwaymen (“robbers”) but can also refer to insurrectionists or revolutionaries (“bandits”).
  5. 2 Corinthians 11:26 tn Or “desert.”
  6. 2 Corinthians 11:27 tn The two different words for labor are translated “in hard work and toil” by L&N 42.48.
  7. 2 Corinthians 11:27 tn Grk “in cold and nakedness.” Paul does not mean complete nakedness, however, which would have been repugnant to a Jew; he refers instead to the lack of sufficient clothing, especially in cold weather. A related word is used to 1 Cor 4:11, also in combination with experiencing hunger and thirst.
  8. 2 Corinthians 11:28 sn Apart from other things. Paul refers here either (1) to the external sufferings just mentioned, or (2) he refers to other things he has left unmentioned.
  9. 2 Corinthians 11:28 tn “Anxious concern,” so translated in L&N 25.224.
  10. 2 Corinthians 11:29 tn Or “who is caused to stumble.”
  11. 2 Corinthians 11:30 tn Grk “If boasting is necessary.”
  12. 2 Corinthians 11:30 tn Or “about the things related to my weakness.”
  13. 2 Corinthians 11:32 tn Grk “ethnarch.”sn The governor was an official called an “ethnarch” who was appointed to rule on behalf of a king over a certain region.
  14. 2 Corinthians 11:32 tn Grk “the city of the Damascenes.”
  15. 2 Corinthians 11:32 tn Or “to seize,” “to catch.”
  16. 2 Corinthians 11:33 tn In Acts 9:25 the same basket used in Paul’s escape is called a σπυρίς (spuris), a basket larger than a κόφινος (kophinos). It was very likely made out of rope, so the translation “rope-basket” is used.
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