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 # General Information:
 This verse reveals that Paul was speaking about himself beginning in [2 Corinthians 12:2](../12/02.md).
 
+# Connecting Statement:
+
+As Paul defends his apostleship, he tells of the weakness that God gave him to keep him humble.
+
 # because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations
 
 "because those revelations were so much greater than anything anyone else had ever seen"