¹⁷ And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.

²⁰ And straight away, in the Synagogues, he was preaching Jesus as the Son of God.

²¹ And all those hearing him were full of wonder and said, Is not this the man who in Jerusalem was attacking all the worshippers of this name? and he had come here so that he might take them as prisoners before the chief priests.

²² But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ.

²³ Then, after some days, the Jews made an agreement together to put him to death:

²⁴ But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death:

²⁵ But his disciples took him by night and let him down from the wall in a basket.

³² In Damascus, the ruler under Aretas the king kept watch over the town of the people of Damascus, in order to take me:

³³ And being let down in a basket from the wall through a window, I got free from his hands.

¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.