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2 Corinthians 11:24-27

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

24. Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26. [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; 27. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2 Corinthians 11:24-27 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 2 Corinthians 11:24

Theological / Devotional

Forty stripes. See on Matt. 10:17. Reference here is to a Jewish form of punishment provided for by Jewish law (Josephus Antiquities iv. 8. 21 [238]; see on Deut. 25:1-3). There is no record anywhere of these beatings inflicted upon Paul. Such beatings were usually administered in the Jewish synagogue (see Vol. V, p. 56; see on Matt. 10:17). Paul had been responsible for many Christians being beaten (Acts 22:19). Christ had been beaten twice (see on Matt. 27:26).

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