 hear him where he starts to talk about how he's almost speaking like a madman he speaks of his imprisonments he says the countless beatings and often your death five times he received at the hands of jews forty lashes less one three times i've been beaten with rods once i was stoned he goes on about being shipwrecked and imprisoned go and read second corinthians 11 and yet he joyfully rejoices that in christ he's able to do so