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.
30. And when the brothers learned of this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him out to Tarsos.