Bible verse
In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.
2 Corinthians 11:32 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Corinthians 11.
28 Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.
32 In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.
33 But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
KJV
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
ASV
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:
ERV
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, in order to take me:
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