Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Plot (epiboulh). Old word for a plan (boulh) against (epi) one. In the N.T. only in Acts (Acts 9:24; Acts 20:3, Acts 20:19; Acts 23:30).
They watched (parethrounto). Imperfect middle indicative of parathrew, common verb in late Greek for watching beside (para) or insidiously or on the sly as in Luke 6:7, they kept on watching by day and night to kill him. In II Corinthians 11:32 Paul says that the Ethnarch of Aretas "kept guard" (efrourei, imperfect active of frourew) to seize him. Probably the Jews obtained the consent of the Ethnarch and had him appoint some of them as guards or watchers at the gate of the city.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 9:24:
Acts 9:23
Acts 9:24
Acts 12:2
Acts 20:3
2 Corinthians 11:32
Galatians 3:23
Philippians 4:7
1 Peter 1:5
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