Acts 9:25

Then the disciples took him by night The oldest MSS. read "But his disciples, &c.," and this well-supported reading favours the explanation of the "many days" given in Acts 9:24. On his second visit Saul had remained long enough to nave gathered round him a party of followers who accepted him as their teacher.

and let him down by[through] the wall in a basket In 2 Corinthians 11:33 St Paul says, "And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall and escaped." Such apertures can be found in the walls of houses in all defenced cities, and it was by such a way that Rahab let the spies escape from Jericho (Joshua 2:15), and Michal aided David's escape (1 Samuel 19:12). The basket here mentioned (spuris) is the same that is spoken of (Matthew 15:37) at the feeding of the four thousand in the mountain district west of the Sea of Galilee. It appears to have been large and soft, fit for carrying a large quantity of miscellaneous articles from the plain into the hills, while the baskets (cophinoi) spoken of at the feeding of the five thousand (Matthew 14:20) were such as the multitude, which in that case had followed Jesus on foot out of the cities, would be likely to carry in their hands. In a basket of the former kind Saul might easily be wrapped and then lowered over the city wall.