Acts 9:23-33

Saul Escapes from Damascus

23 ¹When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him,

24 but their ²plot became known to Saul. ³They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him,

25 but his disciples took him by night and ⁴let him down through an opening in the wall,^[a] lowering him in a basket.

Saul in Jerusalem

26 And ⁵when 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 ⁶Barnabas took him and ⁷brought him to the apostles and declared to them ⁸how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and ⁹how at Damascus he had ¹⁰preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

28 So he went ¹¹in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.

29 And he spoke and disputed against ¹²the Hellenists.^[b] But ¹³they were seeking to kill him.

30 And when ¹⁴the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off ¹⁵to Tarsus.

31 So ¹⁶the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And ¹⁷walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, ¹⁸it multiplied.

The Healing of Aeneas

32 Now ¹⁹as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

33 There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed.