1 and 2 Corinthians
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Lesson OneOverview of 1 and 2 Corinthians (Skim 1 and 2 Corinthians)24 Activities|1 Assessment
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Getting Started
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Lesson Text: Read 1 and 2 Corinthians
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In | The Greeting of 1 Corinthians
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In | Workbook: Blamelessness and Purity, Part 1
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In | Workbook: Blamelessness and Purity, Part 2
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In | Responses to Reports
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In | Workbook: Matching Responses to Reports, Part 1
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In | Workbook: Matching Responses to Reports, Part 2
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In | Responses to Questions
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In | Rights, Tongues and Resurrection
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In | Living with an Imminent Death
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In | The Cross Is the Path of Glory
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In | Boasting, Foolishness and Wisdom
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In | Key Terms in Corinthians
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Behind | Corinth
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Behind | iMap: Letters and Visits on Paul’s Journeys
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Behind | Onsite: Corinth - Paul's Final Appeal for Judgment
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Behind | 360 View: Corinth - Bema Seat
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Behind | Claudius Expels the Jews from Rome
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Behind | Synagogues and Assemblies
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Behind | The Gallio Incident in AD 51
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In Front | Pneuma: Spirit and Spirituality
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In Front | Workbook: Wisdom and the Spirit
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Wrap-Up
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Getting Started
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Lesson TwoHoliness in the Context of Freedom (1 Corinthians 5–8, 10, 15)20 Activities|1 Assessment
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Getting Started
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Lesson Text: 1 Corinthians 5–8, 10, 15
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In | Extremes: Legalism and License
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In | Saved by Grace or Constrained by Love
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In | Workbook: Getting the Alignment Right, Part 1
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In | Workbook: Getting the Alignment Right, Part 2
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In | Gnosticism vs. Torah Holiness
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In | Mediators of a New Covenant
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In | Workbook: Paul and Ezekiel
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In | Workbook: Leviticus and 2 Corinthians
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Behind | Geographical and Cultural Setting
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Behind | Onsite: Liberty and Love - View from Corinth's Marketplace
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Behind | God's New Temple
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Behind | Onsite: Corinth - God's Temple in a Promiscuous Port
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Behind | Religious Background in Corinth
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In Front | Isolation vs. Assimilation
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In Front | Workbook: The Church and Culture
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In Front | Ritual and Recognizing the Spirit
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In Front | Workbook: Rituals in the Church
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Wrap-Up
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Getting Started
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Lesson ThreeUnity and Order in the Context of Diversity (1 Corinthians 1–3, 11–14)19 Activities
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Getting Started
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Lesson Text: 1 Corinthians 1–3, 11–14
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In | Workbook: Unity and Division
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In | Division and Diversity
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In | Order in the Assembly
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In | Workbook: Paul and the Church
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In | The Lord's Supper
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In | Paul's Statement Regarding Women
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In | Workbook: First and Second Adam, Part 1
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In | Workbook: First and Second Adam, Part 2
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Behind | Farming Metaphor
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Behind | Body Metaphor
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Behind | Women in Corinth
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In Front | Torah as Principles: Dr. Dan Juster
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In Front | A Contextualized Movement
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In Front | Gifts of the Spirit
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In Front | A Ministry of Reconciliation: Dr. Salim Munayer
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In Front | Real Love: Abuna Elias Chacour
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Wrap-Up
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Getting Started
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Lesson FourPaul's Apostleship (1 Corinthians 4, 9, 16, 2 Corinthians 1–7)19 Activities|3 Assessments
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Getting Started
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Lesson Text: 1 Corinthians 4, 9, 16, 2 Corinthians 1–7
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In | Workbook: Paul the Apostle
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In | Apostleship in a Spiritual Kingdom
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In | Suffering as an Apostle, Part 1
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In | Workbook: Suffering as an Apostle
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In | Suffering as an Apostle, Part 2
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In | Workbook: Present and Future
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In | Paul and the Beatitudes, Part 2
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In | Workbook: Paul and Jesus
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In | Workbook: One Untimely Born
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Behind | Onsite: Demolishing Strongholds - Paul's Way of Waging War
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In Front | Persecuted and Prosperity Churches
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In Front | The Prosperity Gospel and the Persecuted Church
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In Front | "Wounded" and "Muscular" Christians
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In Front | From Abuse to a Ministry of Grace: Bob Osborne
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In Front | Workbook: Persevering Through Suffering
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In Front | Workbook: Prosperity vs. Persecution
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Wrap-Up
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Getting Started
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Lesson FiveAuthor and Audience (2 Corinthians 8–13)25 Activities|2 Assessments
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Getting Started
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Lesson Text: 2 Corinthians 8–13
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In | Workbook: 1 and 2 Corinthians “Farewells”
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In | Paul's Relationship with Corinth
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In | Workbook: Paul's Lost Epistles, Part 1
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In | Paul's Lost Epistles
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In | Workbook: Paul's Lost Epistles, Part 2
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In | Paul Among the Corinthians
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In | Workbook: Boasting in 1 and 2 Corinthians
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In | A Pre-Pauline Baptismal Formula, Part 1
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In | Workbook: A Pre-Pauline Baptismal Formula, Part 2
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In | Workbook: Acts 9 and 2 Corinthians 11
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In | Preparation, Inspiration and Illumination
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Behind | Stoicism and Passive Fatalism
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Behind | Epitaphs from Roman Tombs
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Behind | Super-Apostles
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Behind | Plutarch’s Criticism of Boasting
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Behind | Workbook: Paul’s Boasting in Greco-Roman Context
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Behind | 360 View: Corinth - Erastus Inscription
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In Front | Pleasure and Comfort
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In Front | Workbook: Reflection on Comfort
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In Front | The Ancient American Church?
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In Front | Offering Peace in Persecution: Pastor Sameh and Nader Maurice
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In Front | Workbook: Guiding Questions - 1 and 2 Corinthians
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Wrap-Up
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Getting Started
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity|1 Assessment
Participants 6
In | Workbook: Acts 9 and 2 Corinthians 11
Grab your Workbook Journal!
[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]
In 2 Corinthians, we find an account of Paul escaping from Damascus.
At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
2 Corinthians 11:32-33 ESV
This story is also recounted in Acts. While there is overlap in the two accounts, there are different details provided:
When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him, but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him, but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.
Acts 9:23-25 ESV
7. What’s different between the two accounts (2 Corinthians 11:32-22; Acts 9:23-25)?
Who was after Paul in Damascus—the Jews or the governor? Second Corinthians says it was the governor, while Acts says it was the Jews.
While it may seem a troubling discrepancy between the two accounts, they don’t contradict each other. As we’ve seen in Jesus’ trials and passion, Jewish leaders were not averse to appealing to outside authorities and influencers to carry out persecution on their behalf. In this scenario, Jewish leaders (Acts 9:23) collaborated with the Nabatean King Aretas (2 Cor 11:32)—whose role here is a mystery—for Paul’s imprisonment. What we’re reading in the two accounts is less a discrepancy than two different elements in a single event.
Reference: Craig S. Keener, Acts: Exegetical Commentary: Volume 1: 1:1–2:47, 2012, pp. 242-249.