21. All those hearing him were amazed. They were saying, “Isn’t this the one who made havoc in Jerusalem for all those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to bring them as prisoners before the ruling kohanim?”
22. But Saul kept growing stronger, and he was confounding the Jewish people living in Damascus by proving that Yeshua is the Messiah.
23. When many days had passed, these Jewish people plotted to kill him—
24. but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him.
25. But the disciples took Saul by night and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket.
26. When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he made attempts to join up with the disciples—but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
27. But Barnabas took him in and brought him to the emissaries. He described to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and the Lord had spoken to him, and how he had spoken boldly in the name of Yeshua.
28. So Saul was with them, going in and out in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.
29. He was speaking and arguing with the Hellenists, but they were trying to kill him.
30. When the brothers found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
31. So Messiah’s community throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had shalom and was built up. Walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Ruach ha-Kodesh, it kept multiplying.