19. He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.
20. Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Messiah, that he is the Son of God.
21. All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”
22. But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Messiah.
23. When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
24. but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
25. but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.