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If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness.

If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.