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But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.
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When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him,
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but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him;
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but his disciples took him by night and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket.
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And when 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.
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But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
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So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem,
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preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists; but they were seeking to kill him.
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And when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to Caesare'a, and sent him off to Tarsus.
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So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Sama'ria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied.
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Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints that lived at Lydda.