laying await. plot. Greek. epiboule. Occurs elsewhere Acts 20:3; Acts 20:19; Acts 23:30.
known. Greek. ginosko. App-132.
of. to.
to. that they might. In 2 Corinthians 11:32, Paul says "the governor under Aretas kept the city with. garrison". This Aretas was Herod's father-in-law, upon whom he made war because Herod had abandoned his daughter for his brother Philip's wife, Herodias. Perhaps to do the Jews. pleasure, like Felix, Aretas endeavored to seize Paul.