Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 12. Now I desire, and so forth From hence it appears, that what was intended as the greatest hindrance to the propagation of the Christian religion, eventually proved the most direct method of extending it. Saint Paul was not less zealous in prison, and in chains, than when he laboured under no obstacles to his designs: how much the reverse is the conduct of our late reformers!
The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”