23 At that particular time there arose no little disturbance+ concerning The Way.*+

32 If, like men,* I have fought with wild beasts at Ephʹe·sus,+ of what good is it to me? If the dead are not to be raised up, “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.”+

9 for a large door that leads to activity has been opened to me,+ but there are many opposers.

23 Are they ministers of Christ? I reply like a madman, I am more outstandingly one:+ in labors more plentifully,+ in prisons more plentifully,+ in blows to an excess, in near-deaths often.+