Acts 9:19-31

and he took food and was strengthened.

Saul Begins to Preach Christ

19 Now ¹ for several days he was with ² the disciples who were at Damascus,

20 and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus ³in the synagogues, saying, "He is ⁴the Son of God."

21 All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, "Is this not he who in Jerusalem ⁵destroyed those who ⁶called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?"

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

23 When ⁷many days had elapsed, ⁸the Jews plotted together to do away with him,

24 but ⁹their plot became known to Saul. ¹⁰They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;

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

26 ¹¹When he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

27 But ¹²Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had ¹³seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how ¹⁴at Damascus he had ¹⁵spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.

28 And he was with them, moving * * about * * freely * * in Jerusalem, ¹⁶speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

29 And he was talking and arguing with the ¹⁷Hellenistic Jews; but they were attempting to put him to death.

30 But when ¹⁸the brethren learned of it, they brought him down to ¹⁹Caesarea and ²⁰sent him away to ²¹Tarsus.

31 So ²²the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 13:5, 14; Acts 14:1; Acts 16:13; Acts 17:2, 10; Acts 18:4, 19; Acts 19:8
• 2. Matthew 4:3; Acts 9:22; Acts 13:33
• 3. Acts 8:3; Acts 9:13; Galatians 1:13, 23
• 4. Acts 9:14
• 5. Galatians 1:17, 18
• 6. 1 Thessalonians 2:16
• 7. Acts 20:3, 19; Acts 23:12, 30; Acts 25:3
• 8. 2 Corinthians 11:32
• 9. Acts 22:17-20; Acts 26:20
• 10. Acts 4:36
• 11. Acts 9:3-6
• 12. Acts 9:20, 22
• 13. Acts 4:13, 29; Acts 9:29
• 14. Acts 4:13, 29; Acts 9:29
• 15. Acts 6:1
• 16. Acts 1:15
• 17. Acts 8:40
• 18. Galatians 1:21
• 19. Acts 9:11
• 20. Acts 5:11; Acts 8:1; Acts 16:5
• 21. Acts 26:20
• 22. Acts 9:26,38; Acts 11:26

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "that"
• [b]. I.e. Messiah
• [c]. Lit "and"
• [d]. Lit "going in and going out"
• [e]. Jews who adopted the Gr language and much of Gr culture through acculturation
• [f]. Lit "was having"