In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
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Gill's Exposition
And through a window in a basket was I let down,.... The house in which he was, like Rahab's, was built upon the wall of the city, and as she let down the spies by a cord through the window, and as…
Barnes' Notes
In Damascus - This circumstance is mentioned as an additional trial. It is evidently mentioned as an instance of peril which had escaped his recollection in the rapid account of his dangers enumerated…
Adam Clarke
In Damascus the governor under Aretas - For a description of Damascus see the note on Act 9:2. And for the transaction to which the apostle refers see Act 9:23. As to King Aretas, there were three of…
Here the apostle gives a large account of his own qualifications, labours, and sufferings (not out of pride or vain-glory, but to the honour of God, who had enabled him to do and suffer so much for…
Cambridge Bible
In Damascus Cf. Act 9:23-25.
the governor Literally, the Ethnarch (ruler of the nation the title of an Oriental provincial governor. See 1Ma 14:47; 1Ma 15:1, &c.).
under Aretas the king Aretas (see…