2 Corinthians 11:24
New International Version
Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

New Living Translation
Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me thirty-nine lashes.

English Standard Version
Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.

Berean Standard Bible
Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

Berean Literal Bible
Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

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

New King James Version
From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.

New American Standard Bible
Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.

NASB 1995
Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.

NASB 1977
Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.

Legacy Standard Bible
Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.

Amplified Bible
Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.

Christian Standard Bible
Five times I received the forty lashes minus one from the Jews.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Five times I received 39 lashes from Jews.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I have been whipped by the Judeans five times with 40 stripes minus one.

Contemporary English Version
Five times my own people gave me 39 lashes with a whip.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes, save one.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Five times the Jewish leaders had me beaten with 39 lashes;

Good News Translation
Five times I was given the thirty-nine lashes by the Jews;

International Standard Version
Five times I received from the Jews 40 lashes minus one.

Literal Standard Version
Five times I received from Jews forty [stripes] except one;

Majority Standard Bible
Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

New American Bible
Five times at the hands of the Jews I received forty lashes minus one.

NET Bible
Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.

New Revised Standard Version
Five times I have received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

New Heart English Bible
Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.

Webster's Bible Translation
From the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one.

Weymouth New Testament
From the Jews I five times have received forty lashes all but one.

World English Bible
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.

Young's Literal Translation
from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive;

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Context
Paul's Suffering and Service
23Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death. 24Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. 25Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:3
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

Luke 12:47
That servant who knows his master's will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.


Treasury of Scripture

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

forty.

Deuteronomy 25:2,3
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number…

Matthew 10:17
But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

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 them.

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2 Corinthians 11
1. Out of his jealousy over the Corinthians, he enters into a forced commendation of himself,
5. of his equality with the chief apostles,
7. of his preaching the gospel to them freely, and without any charge to them;
13. showing that he was not inferior to those deceitful workers in any legal prerogative;
23. and in the service of Christ, and in all kinds of sufferings for his ministry, far superior.














(24) Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.--None of these are recorded in the Acts. It is probable that the words refer to the early period of his work in Cilicia, which is implied though not recorded in that book. (See Note on Acts 15:41). The number of the stripes in Jewish punishments of this kind rested on the rule of Deuteronomy 25:3, which fixed forty as the maximum. In practice it was thought desirable to stop short of the full number in order to avoid exceeding it. The punishment was inflicted with a leather scourge of three knotted thongs, and with a curiously elaborate distribution: thirteen strokes were given on the breast, thirteen on the right shoulder, and thirteen on the left.

Thrice was I beaten with rods.--This, as we see in Acts 16:22-23, was distinctively, though, perhaps, not exclusively, a Roman punishment. The instance at Philippi, as above, is the only one recorded in the Acts. As a Roman citizen he could claim exemption from a punishment which was essentially servile (Acts 16:37), and at Jerusalem (Acts 22:25) he asserted this claim; but it may well have happened elsewhere, as at Philippi, either that the reckless haste of Roman officials led them to order the punishment without inquiry; or that they disregarded the appeal, and took their chance of impunity; or that there were reasons which led him to prefer enduring the ignominious punishment in silence, without protest. . . .

Verse 24. - Five times. Not one of these Jewish scourgings - which yet were so severe that the sufferer often died under them - is mentioned in the Acts. This paragraph is the most striking proof of the complete fragmentariness of that narrative, marvellous as it is. On the circumstances which probably led to these Jewish scourgings, see 'Life of St. Paul,' exc. 11; and comp. Acts 22:19; Acts 26:11; Matthew 23:34. The question arises - Was St. Luke entirely unaware of all these scenes of anguish and daily martyrdom? Had St. Paul, in his humble reticence, never cared to speak of them? or were the Acts only intended for a sketch which made no pretension to completeness, and only related certain scenes and events by way of specimen and example? Forty stripes save one (Deuteronomy 25:3). On this instance of Jewish scrupulosity, and for all that is known of the rationale of Jewish scourgings, see 'Life of St. Paul,' ubi supra.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Five times
πεντάκις (pentakis)
Adverb
Strong's 3999: Five times. Multiplicative adverb from pente; five times.

I received
ἔλαβον (elabon)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 2983: (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of.

from
Ὑπὸ (Hypo)
Preposition
Strong's 5259: A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when).

[the] Jews
Ἰουδαίων (Ioudaiōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 2453: Jewish. From Iouda; Judaean, i.e. Belonging to Jehudah.

[the] forty [lashes]
τεσσεράκοντα (tesserakonta)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 5062: Forty. The decade of tessares; forty.

minus
παρὰ (para)
Preposition
Strong's 3844: Gen: from; dat: beside, in the presence of; acc: alongside of.

one.
μίαν (mian)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.


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