But his followers took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall.—the image of escape through a wall recalls Rahab's rescue and establishes Saul/Paul as a figure of God's preserved remnant. The basket (spyris, a rope-woven container) is an instrument of humiliation for a rabbi of Saul's status, yet he accepts it. This episode foreshadows the pattern: persecution → escape → continued ministry, a cycle Paul later recounts in 2 Corinthians 11:32-33.

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