Are they Hebrews?
So am I.
Are they Israelites?
So am I.
Are they the offspring of Abraham?
So am I.
Are they servants of Christ?
(I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
Three times I was beaten with rods.
Once I was stoned.
Three times I suffered shipwreck.
I have been a night and a day in the deep.