Act 9:24-25 | JFB | e4.org | 24, 25. they watched the gates night and day to kill him —The full extent of his danger appears only from his own account ( ): "In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me"; the exasperated Jews having obtained from the governor a military force, the more surely to compass his destruction.

‏ Acts 9:24-25

24, 25. they watched the gates night and day to kill him—The full extent of his danger appears only from his own account (2Co 11:32): "In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me"; the exasperated Jews having obtained from the governor a military force, the more surely to compass his destruction.

25. Then the disciples . . . by night let him down—"through a window" (2Co 11:33).

by the wall—Such overhanging windows in the walls of Eastern cities were common, and are to be seen in Damascus to this day.

Ac 9:26-31. SAUL'S FIRST VISIT TO JERUSALEM AFTER HIS CONVERSION.