21. All who heard him were astounded and said, “Is not this the man who in Jerusalem ravaged those who call upon this name, and came here expressly to take them back in chains to the chief priests?”
22. But Saul grew all the stronger and confounded [the] Jews who lived in Damascus, proving that this is the Messiah.
23. After a long time had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,
24. but their plot became known to Saul. Now they were keeping watch on the gates day and night so as to kill him,
25. but his disciples took him one night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.
26. When he arrived in Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
27. Then Barnabas took charge of him and brought him to the apostles, and he reported to them how on the way he had seen the Lord and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.
28. He moved about freely with them in Jerusalem, and spoke out boldly in the name of the Lord.
29. He also spoke and debated with the Hellenists, but they tried to kill him.
30. And when the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him on his way to Tarsus.