his trials and persecutions; but he did not aim at a full biography. The following are a few examples
of these conspicuously undesigned coincidences in the chronological order:
Paul’s Conversion.
Comp. Acts chs. 9; 22and 26; three accounts which differ only in minor details.
Gal. 1:15–17; 1 Cor. 15:8; 1 Tim. 1:13–16.
Paul’s Persecution and Escape at Damascus.
Acts 9:23–25. The Jews took counsel together to kill him ... but his disciples took him by
night, and let him down through the wall lowering him in a basket.
2 Cor. 11:32, 33. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the
Damascenes, in order to take me; and through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall,
and escaped his hands
Paul’s Visits to Jerusalem.
9:26, 27. And when he was come to Jerusalem ... Barnabas took him, and brought him to
the apostles.
Gal. 1:18. Then after three years [counting from his conversion] I went up to Jerusalem to
visit Cephas, and tarried with him fifteen days.
15:2. They appointed that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to
Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders [to the apostolic conference to settle the question about
circumcision].
Gal. 2:1. Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas,
taking Titus also with me. And I went up by revelation. [This inner motive does, of course, not
exclude the church appointment mentioned by Luke.]
Paul Left at Athens Alone.
17:16. Now while Paul waited for them [Silas and Timothy] at Athens.
1 Thess. 3:1 We thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, and sent Timothy, etc.
Comp 3:7.
Paul Working at his Trade.
18:3. And because he [Aquila] was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought;
for by their trade they were tent makers. Comp. 20:34.
1 Thess. 2:9. Ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we
might not burden any of you. Comp. 1 Cor. 4:11, 12.
Paul’s Two Visits to Corinth.
18:1; 20:2.
1 Cor. 2:1; 4:19; 16:5.
Work of Apollos at Corinth.
18:27, 28.
1 Cor. 1:12; 3:6.
Paul Becoming a Jew to the Jews.
16:3; 18:18 21:23–26.
1 Cor. 9:20.
Baptism of Crispus and Gaius.
18:8.
1 Cor. 1:14–17.
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