2 Corinthians 11:23 BBE

²¹  I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.

²²  Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

²³  Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

²⁴  Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.

²⁵  Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;