Acts Chapter 9 verse 24 Holy Bible
but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:
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But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death:
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But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also the gates both day and night, that they might kill him;
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But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
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but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
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and their counsel against `him' was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - Their plot (ἐπιβουλή) became known for their laying await was known, A.V.; to Saul for of Saul, A.V.; the gates also for the gates, A.V. and T.R.; that they might for to, A.V.; a colon instead of full point at end of verse.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) They watched the gates day and night to kill him.--A somewhat fuller account of this episode in the Apostle's life is given by him in 2Corinthians 11:32. There we read that the governor--literally, ethnarch--of the city, under Aretas, King of Arabia Petraea, with Petra as his capital, the father of the wife whom Herod Antipas divorced, in order that he might marry Herodias, took an active part in the plot against Paul. On the manner in which Aretas had gained possession of a city which was properly attached to the Roman province of Syria, see Note on Acts 9:2. It is noticeable that there are coins of Damascus bearing the names of Augustus and Tiberius, and again of Nero and his successors, but none of those of Caligula and Claudius, who succeeded Tiberius. Caligula, on his accession, reversed the policy of Tiberius, who had been a friend and supporter of Antipas against Aretas, and it is probable that, as in other instances, he created a new principality, or ethnarchy, in favour of Aretas, to whose predecessors Damascus had belonged (Jos. Ant. xiii. 15, ? 2). The ethnarch apparently wished to court the favour of the large Jewish population, and, looking on St. Paul as a disturber of the public peace, took measures for his arrest and condemnation. Troops were stationed at each gate of the city in order to prevent his escape.
