2 Corinthians 11#Verse 19

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 33 verses.

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:

• Papyrus 46 (c. 200)
• Codex Vaticanus (325–350)
• Codex Sinaiticus (330–360)
• Codex Alexandrinus (400–440)
• Codex Freerianus (c. 450; extant verses 1–2,9–10,20–21,28–29)
• Codex Claromontanus (c. 550)
• Papyrus 124 (6th century; extant verses 1–4,6–9)
• Papyrus 34 (c. 650; extant verses 2,4,6–7).

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In verse 13, Paul writes of "false apostles" ({{langx|el|ψευδαποστολοι}}, {{Transliteration|grc|pseudapostoloi}}). In verse 5 he has compared himself with the "super-apostles" {{bibleverse|2 Corinthians|11:5|NRSV}} or the "apostles-extraordinary" ({{langx|el|των υπερλιαν αποστολων}}, {{Transliteration|grc|tōn hyperlian apostolōn}}). Meyer asks "Whom does he mean by τῶν ὑπερλίαν ἀποστόλων?". He notes that "according to Chrysostom, Theodoret, Grotius, Bengel, and most of the older commentators, also Emmerling, Flatt, Schrader, Baur, Hilgenfeld, Holsten, Holtzmann [among nineteenth century commentators], [he means] the actual summos apostolos, namely Peter, James, and John" but Meyer argues that "Paul is not contending against these, but against the false apostles" and recommends the translation "the over-great apostles". Meyer lists biblical commentators Richard Simon, Alethius, Heumann, Semler, Michaelis, Schulz, Stolz, Rosenmüller, Fritzsche, Billroth, Rückert, Olshausen, de Wette, Ewald, Osiander, Neander, Hofmann, Weiss, Beyschlag and others as having followed Beza's suggestion, according to which the pseudo-apostles were understood to be Judaistic anti-Pauline teachers.[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/meyer/2_corinthians/11.htm Meyer's NT Commentary on 2 Corinthians 11], accessed September 10, 2017

:I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!{{bibleverse|2 Corinthians|11:1|ESV}}: English Standard Version

The King James Version adds "Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly". The reference to God is not part of the Greek text.Plumptre, E., [https://biblehub.com/commentaries/ellicott/2_corinthians/11.htm Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers] on 2 Corinthians 11, accessed on 28 June 2025

King James Version

: And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.{{bibleverse|2 Corinthians|11:14|KJV}}: King James Version

New King James Version

: And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.{{bibleverse|2 Corinthians|11:14|NKJV}}: NKJV

{{main|Suffer fools gladly}}

New King James Version

: For you put up with fools gladly, since you yourselves are wise!{{bibleverse|2 Corinthians|11:19|NKJV}}: NKJV

King James Version

: For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.{{bibleverse|2 Corinthians|11:19|KJV}}: KJV

: From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.{{bibleverse|2 Corinthians|11:24|NKJV}}: NKJV

• "Forty stripes minus one" (KJV: "Forty stripes save one"): The number of stripes Paul received at each time agrees with the traditions and customs of the Jews, based on {{bibleverse|Deuteronomy|25:2–3|KJV}}: "forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed". In fulfilling that law, runs the tradition "with forty save one"Maimonides and Bartenora in ib. and this is the general sense of their interpreters,Targum Jon. & Jarchi in Deut. xxv. 3. Zohar in Deut. fol. 119. 3. Joseph Antiqu. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 23. Moses Kotsensis Mitzvot Tora, pr. Affirm. 105. as a settled ruleT. Hieros. Nazir, fol. 53. 1. "that scourging according to the law is with forty stripes save one" as Maimonides observes.Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 17. 1. According to the manner of scourging, a scourge of three cords could be use, that every stroke went for three stripes, so that by thirteen strokes, thirty nine stripes were given, and if a fourteenth had been added, there would have been forty two stripes and so have exceeded what the law allows. Thus Paul received the most severe scourging permitted from the Jews (cf. {{bibleverse|Matthew|10:17|KJV}}).Ib. sect. 2. Misn. Maccot, c. 3. sect. 11.[http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/2-corinthians-11-24.html John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, 2 Corinthians 11:24]

File:Damascus-Bab Kisan.jpg gate (now Chapel of Saint Paul), believed to be where Paul escaped from persecution in Damascus]]

: but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.{{bibleverse|2 Corinthians|11:33|NKJV}}: NKJV

• Cross reference: Acts 9:25

• Aretas IV Philopatris
• Chapel of Saint Paul
• Damascus
• Related Bible parts: Deuteronomy 25, Acts 9, 2 Corinthians 2, 2 Corinthians 10, Galatians 1

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• {{cite book|last=MacDonald | first= Margaret | chapter = 66. 2 Corinthians | title=The Oxford Bible Commentary | editor-first1=John| editor-last1=Barton | editor-first2=John| editor-last2= Muddiman | publisher = Oxford University Press |edition= first (paperback) | date = 2007 | pages = 1134–1151 | isbn = 978-0199277186 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJdVkgEACAAJ| access-date=February 6, 2019}}

• {{bibleverse|2 Corinthians|11|KJV}} King James Bible - Wikisource
• [http://www.latinvulgate.com/lv/verse.aspx?t=1&b=8&c=11 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617015756/http://latinvulgate.com/lv/verse.aspx?t=1&b=8&c=11 |date=June 17, 2019 }}
• [http://www.gospelhall.org/bible/bible.php?passage=2Corinthians+11 Online Bible at GospelHall.org] (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English)
• [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=54&chapter=11 Multiple bible versions at Bible Gateway] (NKJV, NIV, NRSV etc.)

{{Second Epistle to the Corinthians}}

2 Corinthians 11