Saul Escapes from Damascus

^23 (A)When many days had passed, the Jews^[a] plotted to kill him, ²⁴ but their ^(B)plot became known to Saul. ^(C)They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him, ²⁵ but his disciples took him by night and ^(D)let him down through an opening in the wall,^[b] lowering him in a basket.

Saul in Jerusalem

²⁶ And ^(E)when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. ²⁷ But ^(F)Barnabas took him and ^(G)brought him to the apostles and declared to them ^(H)how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and ^(I)how at Damascus he had ^(J)preached boldly in the name of Jesus. ²⁸ So he went ^(K)in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. ²⁹ And he spoke and disputed against ^(L)the Hellenists.^[c] But ^(M)they were seeking to kill him. ³⁰ And when ^(N)the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off ^(O)to Tarsus.

³¹ So ^(P)the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And ^(Q)walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, ^(R)it multiplied.