2 Timothy 3:11

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Summary

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Persecutions

At antioch

Acts 13:45

Acts 14:2

But

2 Corinthians 1:10

Bible References

Persecutions

I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

how I served the Lord in all humility, with many a tear and many a trial which I encountered owing to the plots of the Jews,

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

Now I would like you to know about the distress which befell me in Asia, brothers. I was crushed, crushed far more than I could stand, so much so that I despaired even of life;

on every side I am harried but not hemmed in, perplexed but not despairing,

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

partly by being held up yourselves to obloquy and anguish, partly by making common cause with those who fared in this way;

At antioch

But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.

[Move to follow vs 3] But the refractory Jews stirred up and exasperated the feeling of the Gentiles against the brothers.

But

I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.

and the Jews, after a number of days had elapsed, conspired to make away with him.

Taking some soldiers and officers, he at once rushed down to them, and when they saw the commander and the soldiers they stopped beating Paul.

The quarrel then became so violent that the commander was afraid they would tear Paul in pieces; he therefore ordered the troops to march down and take him from them by force, bringing him inside the barracks.

as a special favour, to send for him to Jerusalem, meaning to lay an ambush for him and murder him on the road.

I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles ??to whom I send you,

he rescued me from so terrible a death, he rescues still, and I rely upon him for the hope that he will continue to rescue me.