Acts 9:19-25 ▼

19 and after eating some food, he felt strong again. For several days he stayed with the disciples in Damascus.

20 He immediately started to preach about Jesus in the synagogues, saying, |This is the Son of God.|

21 Everyone who heard him was astonished and said, |This is the man who harassed those who were calling on Jesus' name in Jerusalem, isn't it? Didn't he come here to bring them in chains to the high priests?|

22 But Saul grew more and more persuasive, and continued to confound the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this man was the Messiah.

23 After several days had gone by, the Jewish leaders plotted to murder Saul,

24 but their plot became known to him. They were even watching the gates day and night to murder him,

25 but his disciples took him one night and let him down through the city wall by lowering him in a basket.