Acts 9:23

19He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.

20Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

21All 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!”

22But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

23When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,

24but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

25but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

26When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

27But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.