Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
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Gill's Exposition
And when Saul was come to Jerusalem,.... After he had escaped out of Damascus, in the manner before related, and which was three years after his conversion:
he assayed to join himself to the…
Barnes' Notes
Took him by night ... - This was done through a window in the wall, 2Co 11:33. In a basket - This word is used to denote commonly “the basket in which food was carried,” Mat 15:37; Mar 8:8, Mar 8:20.…
Adam Clarke
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…
Luke here makes no mention of Paul's journey into Arabia, which he tells us himself was immediately after his conversion, Gal 1:16, Gal 1:17. As soon as God had revealed his Son in him, that he might…
Cambridge Bible
Then the disciples took him by night The oldest MSS. read "But his disciples, &c.," and this well-supported reading favours the explanation of the "many days" given in Act 9:9. On his second visit…