2nd Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 33 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndCorinthians 11:33

and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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BBE 2ndCorinthians 11:33

And being let down in a basket from the wall through a window, I got free from his hands.
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DARBY 2ndCorinthians 11:33

and through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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KJV 2ndCorinthians 11:33

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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WEB 2ndCorinthians 11:33

Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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YLT 2ndCorinthians 11:33

and through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 33. - Through a window. A "little door," or lattice in some house which abutted on the wall. In a basket (comp. Joshua 2:15; 1 Samuel 19:12). The word used by St. Luke in Acts 9:25 is spuris, which is a general name for a large basket. The word here used is sargane, which is defined by Hesychius to be a basket of wickerwork, but which may also mean a rope basket. This particular incident, no doubt, seems to be less perilous and trying than many which St. Paul has already mentioned. We must, however, remember that escape from a window in the lofty wall of a city guarded by patrols was very perilous, and also that such a method of concealment was very trying to the dignity of an Oriental rabbi, such as St. Paul had been. Further, it is clear that St. Paul only mentions this as the earliest incident in along line of perils which it had been his original intention to recount. But at this point he was interrupted, and laid aside his task of dictation - an incident which has not unfrequently had its effect in literature. When next he resumed, the Epistle, he was no longer in the mood to break through his rule of reticence on these subjects. He had played "the fool" and "the madman," as he says of himself with indignant irony, enough; and he proceeds to speak of other personal claims which he regards as more Important and more Divine. Of all "chapters of unwritten history," not one is more deeply to be regretted than the one which we have them lost.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(33) Through a window in a basket . . .--On the mode of escape, see Notes on Acts 9:24-25. So the spies escaped from the house of Rahab (Joshua 2:15), and David from the pursuit of Saul (1Samuel 19:12). The word which St. Paul uses for "basket" (sargane) implies, perhaps, a more vivid personal recollection, as meaning specifically a rope-work hamper. St. Luke employs the more general term, spuris. (See Note on Matthew 15:32.)