Bible Strands
Acts 9:24
but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator addresses the reader regarding Saul immediately after a prolonged Jewish conspiracy to assassinate him.
The words — ἐπιβουλὴ (epiboulē) translates to "plot," and παρετηροῦντο (paretērounto) means "they were watching."
The thread — This pattern of persistent assassination attempts appears in 2 Corinthians 11:32, Acts 25:3, and Acts 20:3.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that Saul’s mission faced continuous, coordinated opposition requiring urgent escape measures.
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The Greek words
King James Version
But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
Cross-references
- 2 Corinthians 11:32 In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.
- Acts 25:3 to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
- Acts 20:3 where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
- Acts 20:19 I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.
- Judges 16:2 When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”
- Psalms 21:11 Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
- Psalms 37:32 Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
- Acts 9:29 He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.
- Acts 14:5 But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
- Acts 17:10 As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue.