Acts 9:19–29

¹⁹and he took food and was strengthened.

Saul Begins to Preach Christ

Now ^afor several days he was with ^bthe disciples who were at Damascus,

²⁰and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus ^ain the synagogues, ¹saying, “He is ^bthe Son of God.”

²¹All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, “Is this not he who in Jerusalem ^adestroyed those who ^bcalled on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”

²²But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the ¹Christ.

²³When ^amany days had elapsed, ^bthe Jews plotted together to do away with him,

²⁴but ^atheir plot became known to Saul. ^bThey were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;

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

^26aWhen he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; ¹but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

²⁷But ^aBarnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had ^bseen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how ^cat Damascus he had ^dspoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.

²⁸And he was with them, ¹moving about freely in Jerusalem, ^aspeaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

²⁹And he was talking and arguing with the ^1aHellenistic Jews; but they were attempting to put him to death.