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I knew a man ino Christ above fourteen δyears ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

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Rom. 16:7• ⁷Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. (Rom. 16:7)

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Acts 22:17• ¹⁷And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance; (Acts 22:17)

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2 Cor. 12:3,5• ³And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
⁵Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. (2 Cor. 12:3,5)

in Christ.

2 Cor. 5:17,21• ¹⁷Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
²¹For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Cor. 5:17,21)

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2 Cor. 13:5• ⁵Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (2 Cor. 13:5)

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Isa. 45:24‑25• ²⁴Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
²⁵In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. (Isa. 45:24‑25)

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John 6:56• ⁵⁶He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. (John 6:56)

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John 15:4‑6• ⁴Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
⁶If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. (John 15:4‑6)

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John 17:21‑23• ²¹That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
²²And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
²³I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:21‑23)

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Rom. 8:1• ¹There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Rom. 8:1)

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Rom. 16:7• ⁷Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. (Rom. 16:7)

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1 Cor. 1:30• ³⁰But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: (1 Cor. 1:30)

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Gal. 1:22• ²²And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ: (Gal. 1:22)

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Gal. 5:6• ⁶For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. (Gal. 5:6)

about."A.D 46, at Lystra."

Acts 14:6• ⁶They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about: (Acts 14:6)

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Acts 22:17• ¹⁷And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance; (Acts 22:17)

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2 Cor. 5:6‑8• ⁶Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
⁷(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
⁸We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (2 Cor. 5:6‑8)

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1 Kings 18:12• ¹²And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth. (1 Kings 18:12)

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2 Kings 2:16• ¹⁶And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send. (2 Kings 2:16)

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Ezek. 8:1‑3• ¹And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.
²Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber.
³And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. (Ezek. 8:1‑3)

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Ezek. 11:24• ²⁴Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. (Ezek. 11:24)

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Acts 8:39‑40• ³⁹And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
⁴⁰But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea. (Acts 8:39‑40)

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Acts 22:17• ¹⁷And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance; (Acts 22:17)

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Phil. 1:22‑23• ²²But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
²³For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: (Phil. 1:22‑23)

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Rev. 1:10• ¹⁰I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, (Rev. 1:10)

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Rev. 4:2• ²And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. (Rev. 4:2)

God.

2 Cor. 12:3• ³And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) (2 Cor. 12:3)

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2 Cor. 11:11• ¹¹Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. (2 Cor. 11:11)

caught.

2 Cor. 12:4• ⁴How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. (2 Cor. 12:4)

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Luke 24:51• ⁵¹And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. (Luke 24:51)

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1 Thess. 4:17• ¹⁷Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thess. 4:17)

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Heb. 9:24• ²⁴For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: (Heb. 9:24)

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Rev. 12:5• ⁵And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. (Rev. 12:5)

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Gen. 1:14‑20• ¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
¹⁵And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
¹⁶And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
¹⁷And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
¹⁸And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
¹⁹And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
²⁰And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. (Gen. 1:14‑20)

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1 Kings 8:27• ²⁷But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? (1 Kings 8:27)

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Isa. 57:15• ¹⁵For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. (Isa. 57:15)

• We have seen the spiritual power and tact with which the apostle handles his glorying, how he blends " the man in Christ" with that which was peculiar to himself so as to cut off all self or fleshly boasting, and yet afford every saint intelligent of his privileges the dame conscious privilege substantially as he had himself received miraculously. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 12:1-6” by W. Kelly)

• So David said not a word about the lion and the bear which he was enabled to kill while engaged in his lowly task, till it was needful to allay the fears of others to God's glory; and the apostle only spoke many years after a wondrous experience which others less spiritual would have talked of everywhere for as many years or more. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 12:1-6” by W. Kelly)

• Body there or not, he was not hindered from feeling the glory to be beyond the measure of man. There the glorified will be to enjoy all with Christ at His coming, in bodies like His own; and there the disembodied saint goes to be with Him. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 12:1-6” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I knowc a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows;) such a one caught up tod the third heaven.

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Conscious knowledge; and so all through.

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Heos, "as far as." see Luke 24.50; Acts 11.22.

W. Kelly Translation

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I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such an one caught up to the third heaven.