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.
32. Peter went here and there among them all. He came down as well to the kedoshim living in Lydda.
33. There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years—he was paralyzed.
34. Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Messiah Yeshua heals you. Get up and pack up your bed.” Immediately, he got up!
35. All who lived in Lydda and the Plain of Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
36. In Joppa, there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translates as Dorcas). She was full of mitzvot and tzadakah, which she continually did.