Paul wished him to go out with him; and having taken him circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places: for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.

Why

So many as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised; only that they do not suffer persecution on account of the cross of Christ.

And He said to me, Go: because I will send thee far away to the Gentiles.

And there were more than forty having made this plot:

Why indeed are we in jeopardy every hour?

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;

The offence

Why? Because they sought it not from faith, but as it were from works: they stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

For the word of the cross is foolishness indeed to those who are lost; but to those who are saved it is the power of God.

who stumble over the word, disbelieving: unto which they indeed were appointed.

General references

Why indeed are we in jeopardy every hour?

For if I again build the things which I have destroyed, I constitute myself a transgressor.