22 Are they Hebrews?(A) So am I.
Are they Israelites? So am I.
Are they the seed of Abraham?(B) So am I.
23 Are they servants of Christ?
I’m talking like a madman—I’m a better one:
with far more labors,
many more imprisonments,
far worse beatings, near death[a] many times.
24 Five times I received 39 lashes from Jews.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:23 Lit and in deaths

22 Are they Hebrews? So am I.(A) Are they Israelites? So am I.(B) Are they Abraham’s descendants? So am I.(C) 23 Are they servants of Christ?(D) (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder,(E) been in prison more frequently,(F) been flogged more severely,(G) and been exposed to death again and again.(H) 24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes(I) minus one.

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