a11:32-33
bActs 9:23-25
cGal 1:15-18

‏ 2 Corinthians 11:32-33

Summary for 2Cor 11:32-33: 11:32-33  a As a final “boast” of his weakness, Paul tells the story of his escape from Damascus a few years after his conversion (see Acts 9:23-25  b; Gal 1:15-18  c).

• King Aretas IV of Nabataea controlled Damascus only after AD 37, following the death of the emperor Tiberius (see Josephus, Antiquities 18.5.1-3); the mention of Aretas dates Paul’s escape from Damascus between AD 37 and the end of Aretas’s reign in AD 39 or 40.
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