“But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;”
I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel — despite imprisonment (or because of it), Paul sees his suffering as instrumental to the gospel's progress. 'What has happened to me' (ta kat' eme) encompasses the entire situation of arrest and trial. The verb prokoptō (advance, make headway) was used of a road being opened or a city walls being breached—the gospel breaks through obstacles. This reframes suffering not as setback but as paradoxical advancement.
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