Omitted in Acts

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Of the appalling list of Paul’s sufferings numbered in 2 Corinthians 11:22-25 (and written long before Acts), staggeringly few found their way into Luke’s account of Paul’s life. In Acts, Luke mentions:

    * just one of the “in prisons more abundantly” incidents (2 Corinthians 11:23)

    * none of the five times Paul received a set of 39 lashes

    * just one of the three times he was beaten with rods

    * none of the three shipwrecks (Acts records a fourth that occurred after the writing of 2 Corinthians).

Most likely, there were still more instances Luke never bothered to mention between the writing of 2 Corinthians and Acts.

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