Free Bible Commentary
“2 Corinthians 11:29-33”
Categories: 2 Corinthians“Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern? If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me, and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.”
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Paul is continuing to defend himself and his credibility to the brethren in Corinth. It should have been obvious to them that Paul truly loved them and the Lord because of all that he was willing to give up for them, and all he was willing to endure in order to serve them.
When Paul had preached the Gospel in the city of Damascus shortly after his conversion, “the Jews plotted together to do away with him” (Acts 9:23). They obviously secured the assistance of a government official to carry out their murderous plot (verse 32).
After he escaped their hands, he continued to travel and preach and teach the truth to all creation, even as far as the city of Corinth. If he didn’t have an intense conviction for the Gospel and a strong love for both God and man, he would have fled to a remote part of the world and hid out in isolation and obscurity.
But, even if no one else believed and understood the truth of the matter, “The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, He who is blessed forever,” He knew that Paul wasn’t lying (verse 31). God knows. Those can be two of the most comforting words of all time, or they can be the most frightening.
If we ever feel like no one understands us or that no one knows the truth about our honesty and integrity; please do not fret. God knows, and ultimately He is the only one that needs to! Conversely, if we think that we can secretly behave sinfully with impunity, God knows that too, even if no one else in the whole world sees a thing!
"For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His” (2 Chronicles 16:9).
Please read 2 Corinthians 12:1-6 for tomorrow.
Have a blessed day!
-Louie Taylor
