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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 Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me. (Rom. 16:7)

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Acts 22:17• ¹⁷And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy, (Acts 22:17)

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2 Cor. 12:3,5• ³And I know such a man, (whether in the body or out of the body I know not, God knows;)
⁵Of such a one I will boast, but of myself I will not boast, unless in my weaknesses. (2 Cor. 12:3,5)

in Christ.

2 Cor. 5:17,21• ¹⁷So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:
²¹Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God's righteousness in him. (2 Cor. 5:17,21)

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2 Cor. 13:5• ⁵examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates? (2 Cor. 13:5)

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

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John 6:56• ⁵⁶He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells 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 unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me.
⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
⁶Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they 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 may be all 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 hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one;
²³I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me. (John 17:21‑23)

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Rom. 8:1• ¹There is then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus. (Rom. 8:1)

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Rom. 16:7• ⁷Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me. (Rom. 16:7)

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1 Cor. 1:30• ³⁰But of him are *ye* in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption; (1 Cor. 1:30)

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Gal. 1:22• ²²But I was unknown personally to the assemblies of Judaea which are in Christ; (Gal. 1:22)

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Gal. 5:6• ⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love. (Gal. 5:6)

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

Acts 14:6• ⁶they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country, (Acts 14:6)

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Acts 22:17• ¹⁷And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy, (Acts 22:17)

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2 Cor. 5:6‑8• ⁶Therefore we are always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,
⁷(for we walk by faith, not by sight;)
⁸we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. (2 Cor. 5:6‑8)

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

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2 Kings 2:16• ¹⁶and said to him, Behold now, there are with thy servants fifty valiant men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master, lest perhaps the Spirit of Jehovah have taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some ravine. 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, on the fifth of the month, that as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me.
²And I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the look of glowing brass.
³And he stretched forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heavens, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entry 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• ²⁴And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity; and the vision that I had seen went up from me. (Ezek. 11:24)

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

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Acts 22:17• ¹⁷And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy, (Acts 22:17)

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Phil. 1:22‑23• ²²but if to live in flesh is my lot, this is for me worth the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.
²³But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, for it is very much better, (Phil. 1:22‑23)

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

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Rev. 4:2• ²Immediately I became in the Spirit; and behold, a throne stood in the heaven, and upon the throne one sitting, (Rev. 4:2)

God.

2 Cor. 12:3• ³And I know such a man, (whether in the body or out of the body I know not, God knows;) (2 Cor. 12:3)

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2 Cor. 11:11• ¹¹Why? because I do not love you? God knows. (2 Cor. 11:11)

caught.

2 Cor. 12:4• ⁴that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable things said which it is not allowed to man to utter. (2 Cor. 12:4)

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Luke 24:51• ⁵¹And it came to pass as he was blessing them, he was separated from them and was carried up into heaven. (Luke 24:51)

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1 Thess. 4:17• ¹⁷then *we*, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall be always with the Lord. (1 Thess. 4:17)

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Heb. 9:24• ²⁴For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: (Heb. 9:24)

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Rev. 12:5• ⁵And she brought forth a male son, who shall shepherd all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was caught up to 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 expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
¹⁵and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.
¹⁶And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night,--and the stars.
¹⁷And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth,
¹⁸and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
¹⁹And there was evening, and there was morning--a fourth day.
²⁰And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens. (Gen. 1:14‑20)

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

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Isa. 57:15• ¹⁵For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, and whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and with him 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.