Acts 9:24

laying await = plot. Greek. epiboule. Occurs elsewhere Acts 20:3 , Acts 20:19 ; Acts 23:30 .

known. Greek. ginosko. App-132 .

of = to.

to = that they might. In 2 Corinthians 11:32 , Paul says "the governor under Aretas kept the city with a garrison". This Aretas was Herod's father-in-law, upon whom he made war because Herod had abandoned his daughter for his brother Philip's wife, Herodias. Perhaps to do the Jews a pleasure, like Felix, Aretas endeavored to seize Paul.