16. “For I shall show him how much he has to suffer for My Name.”
17. And Ḥananyah went away and went into the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Sha’ul, the Master יהושע, who appeared to you on the way as you came, has sent me, so that you might see again and be filled with the Set-apart Spirit.”
18. And immediately there fell from his eyes, as it were scales, and he received his sight. And rising up, he was immersed.
19. And having received food, he was strengthened. And Sha’ul was with the taught ones at Damascus some days.
20. And immediately he proclaimed the Messiah in the congregations, that He is the Son of Elohim.
21. And all who heard were amazed, and said, “Is this not he who destroyed those calling on this Name in Yerushalayim, and has come here for this, to take them bound to the chief priests?”
22. But Sha’ul kept increasing in strength, and was confounding the Yehuḏim who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Messiah.
23. And after many days had elapsed, the Yehuḏim plotted to kill him.
24. But their plot became known to Sha’ul. And they were watching the gates day and night, to kill him.
25. But taking him by night, the taught ones let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
26. And having arrived at Yerushalayim, Sha’ul tried to join the taught ones, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a taught one.
27. But Barnaḇah took him and brought him to the emissaries, and told them how he had seen the Master on the way, and that He had spoken to him, and how he was speaking boldly at Damascus in the Name of יהושע.
28. And he was with them at Yerushalayim, coming in and going out,
29. and speaking boldly in the Name of the Master יהושע and disputed with the Hellenists, but they undertook to kill him.