² for authorization to purge all the synagogues in Damascus of followers of the way of Jesus.^[a] His plan was to arrest and chain any of Jesus’ followers—women as well as men—and transport them back to Jerusalem.

²⁶ So, when Priscilla and Aquila heard him speak boldly in the synagogue, they discerned both his gift and his lack of full understanding. They took him aside and in private explained the way of God to him more accurately and fully.