Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 9:23

23 ¶ And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:

God would not presently expose him to conflicts, but inure him to suffer by degrees; as also it pleased God to spare him so long nigh unto, that place where he had wrought so great a miracle for him; the sense of which might the [illegible: 1 letter]ore be upon himself and others also, for he continued here three years, as may be seen, Gal. 1.17, 18. excepting onely a journey into Arabia.