18. Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. And he rose up and was baptized.
19. When he had eaten, he was strengthened.For several days Saul was with the disciples in Damascus.
20. Immediately he preached in the synagogues that the Christ is the Son of God.
21. All who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this he who killed those who called on this name in Jerusalem, and came here with that intent, to bring them bound to the chief priests?”
22. Yet Saul increased all the more with power and confounded the Jews living in Damascus, proving that this One is the Christ.
23. After many days had passed, the Jews arranged to kill him.
24. But their scheme was known by Saul. They watched the gates day and night to kill him.
25. But the disciples took him by night, and lowered him in a basket through the wall.
26. When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples. But they all feared him, not believing he was a disciple.
27. But Barnabas took him, and led him to the apostles, and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken to him, and how he had boldly preached in Damascus in the name of Jesus.
28. So he stayed with them while coming in and going out of Jerusalem.
29. And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputed against the Hellenists. But they tried to kill him.
30. When the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.