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PARALLEL BIBLE - Acts 9:25


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King James Bible - Acts 9:25

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

World English Bible

but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

Douay-Rheims - Acts 9:25

But the disciples taking him in the night, conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down in a basket.

Webster's Bible Translation

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

Greek Textus Receptus


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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge

VERSE (25) - Jos 2:15 1Sa 19:11,12 2Co 11:33

SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:25

Entonces los discípulos, tomndole de noche, le bajaron por el muro metido en una canasta.

Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 9:25

Verse 25. Let him down, by the wall] Favoured, probably, by a house built against or upon the wall, through the window of which they could lower him in a basket; and by this means he made his escape. His escape was something similar to that of the spies at Jericho, Josh. ii. 15.

John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 25. Then the disciples took him by night , etc.] The Alexandrian copy reads, his disciples; the disciples of Saul, such as he had been instrumental in making at Damascus: but it is not usual for the saints to be called in Scripture the disciples of any man; therefore the common reading is best, and designs the disciples and followers of Christ; who being concerned for the preservation of so valuable a life, took Saul in the night season, and let him down by the wall in a basket . Damascus was a walled city; hence we read of the wall of Damascus, ( Jeremiah 49:27). And the house where Saul was, and which very likely was one of the disciples, was built upon the wall, as the house of Rahab was upon the town wall of Jericho; and as she let down the spies from thence by a cord through the window, ( Joshua 2:15) so the disciples let down Saul in a basket with cords through the window of the house, as appears from 2 Corinthians 11:33. (See Gill on 2 Corinthians 11:33): no doubt, the disciples were directed by the overruling providence of God, in order to preserve the life of the apostle, who had much work to do for Christ in several parts of the world, and therefore must not fall into the hands of his enemies and die, his time not being yet come; and this shows, that it is lawful to make use of all prudent means and proper methods to prevent the designs of wicked men, and escape out of their hands, and preserve life when in danger; by which means Saul escaped their hands.

Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 23-31 - When we enter into the way of God, we must look for trials; but the Lord knows how to deliver the godly, and will, with the temptation also make a way to escape. Though Saul's conversion was and is a proo of the truth of Christianity, yet it could not, of itself, convert on soul at enmity with the truth; for nothing can produce true faith, but that power which new-creates the heart. Believers are apt to be to suspicious of those against whom they have prejudices. The world i full of deceit, and it is necessary to be cautious, but we mus exercise charity, 1Co 13:5. The Lord will clear up the characters of true believers; and he will bring them to his people, and often give them opportunities of bearing testimony to his truth, before those wh once witnessed their hatred to it. Christ now appeared to Saul, an ordered him to go quickly out of Jerusalem, for he must be sent to the Gentiles: see ch. 22:21. Christ's witnesses cannot be slain till the have finished their testimony. The persecutions were stayed. The professors of the gospel walked uprightly, and enjoyed much comfor from the Holy Ghost, in the hope and peace of the gospel, and other were won over to them. They lived upon the comfort of the Holy Ghost not only in the days of trouble and affliction, but in days of rest an prosperity. Those are most likely to walk cheerfully, who wal circumspectly.

Greek Textus Receptus


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Vincent's NT Word Studies

25. By the wall (dia tou teicouv). Rev., more accurately, through the wall, as is explained by 2 Cor. xi. 33. Either through the window of a house overhanging the wall, or through a window in the wall itself opening to houses on its inner side. Hackett says that he observed such windows in the wall at Damascus. On the mode of escape, compare Josh. ii. 15; 1 Sam. xix. 12.

Basket (spuridi). See on Matt. xiv. 20. In Paul's account of this adventure he uses sarganh, a plaited or braided basket of wicker-work; or, as some think, of ropes.

Robertson's NT Word Studies

9:25 {Through the wall} (dia tou teicous). Paul in #2Co 11:33 explains dia tou teicous as being dia quridos (through a window) which opened into the house on the inside of the wall as is true today in Damascus as Hackett saw there. See #Jos 2:15f. (cf. #1Sa 19:12) for the way that Rahab let out the spies "by a cord through the window." {Lowering him} (auton calasantes). First aorist active participle of calaw, old and common verb in a nautical sense (#Ac 27:17,30) as well as otherwise as here. Same verb used by Paul of this experience (#2Co 11:33). {In a basket} (en sfuridi). The word used when the four thousand were fed (#Mr 8:8; Mt 15:37). A large basket plaited of reeds and distinguished in #Mr 8:19f. (#Mt 16:9f.) from the smaller kofinos. Paul uses sargane, a basket made of ropes. this escape by night by the help of the men whom he had come to destroy was a shameful memory to Paul (#2Co 11:33). Wendt thinks that the coincidences in language here prove that Luke had read II Corinthians. That, of course, is quite possible.

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