11:23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
11:24 Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. 1
1 tnGrk “forty less one”; this was a standard sentence. “Lashes” is supplied to clarify for the modern reader what is meant.