2 Timothy 4.17 Stood with ... to stand by one's side Strengthened me (enedunamōsen me). “ Poured power into me.” See note on Phi 4:13. Preaching = It seems that Paul again took advantage of the occasion (his hearing) to preach the gospel, see Acts 24 before Felix, Acts 24 & 25 befoe Festus and King Agrippa. The judges (perhaps even Nero) heard the gospel preached by the apostle Paul himself. I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion = (1 Thessalonians 1:10). A proverb, but not certain what the application is whether to Nero or to Satan (1 Thessalonians 2:18) or to the lion in the arena where Paul could not be sent because a Roman citizen.