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2 Corinthians 11:24

Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

KJV

ὑπὸ Ἰουδαίων πεντάκις τεσσεράκοντα παρὰ μίαν ἔλαβον,

Greek NT

A Judæis quinquies, quadragenas, una minus, accepi.

Vulgate

Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

ASV

Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
πεντάκις
pentakis
adverb · 1×
τεσσαράκοντα
tessarakonta
adjective · 22×
Ἰουδαῖος
ioudaios
adjective · 193×
ὑπό
upo
preposition · 221×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. And let no one, says he, think that I speak only of the past: 1 Corinthians 4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked. Do you see that all the life of Christians must be such as this; and not merely a day or two? For though the wrestler who is victorious in a single contest only, be crowned, he is not crowned again if he suffer a fall. And hung…
1. At all times indeed, but especially then when I reflect upon the achievements of the saints, it comes over me to feel despondency concerning my own condition, because we have not even in dreams experienced the things among which those men spent their whole lives, not paying the penalty of sins, but always doing rightly and yet always afflicted. For consider, I beseech you, E…

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 11:23 — Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
  • Acts 5:40 — And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
  • Mark 13:9 — But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against t