Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at
Antioch,
&c.] In Pisidia; where the Jews that contradicted and
blasphemed his doctrine, and envied his success, stirred up the
chief of the city, both men and women, against him, and Barnabas;
who persecuted them and expelled them out, of their coasts, (
Acts 13:45
Acts 13:50 )
and also at Iconium; where both Jews and Gentiles made an assault
upon them, to use them ill, and stone them, ( Acts 14:5 ) and likewise
at Lystra; where the apostle was stoned, and drawn out of the
city, and left for dead, ( Acts 14:19 ) . And these
instances are the rather mentioned because they were done in
those parts, where Timothy had lived, ( Acts 16:1 ) and so knew
the truth of these things, not only from the apostle's mouth, but
from the testimonies of others; and perhaps he might have been a
witness to some of them himself;
what persecutions I endured:
not only in the above places, but elsewhere; see a detail of them
in (
2 Corinthians 11:23-28 ) ,
but out of them all the Lord delivered me;
see ( 2
Corinthians 1:10 ) ( 2 Timothy
4:17 2 Timothy
4:18 ) , this he says to the glory of the grace and power of
God, to whom he ascribes all his deliverances; and for the
encouragement of Timothy, and other saints, under sufferings, who
may hope and believe that the Lord will deliver them in his own
time and way, ( Psalms 34:19
) .