¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

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

²¹ All 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!"

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

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

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

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

³² In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.

³³ Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.