[9:19] Saul stayed for a few days with the believers in Damascus.
[9:20] He went straight to the synagogues and began to preach that Jesus was the Son of God.
[9:21] All who heard him were amazed and asked, “Isn't he the one who in Jerusalem was killing those who worship that man Jesus? And didn't he come here for the very purpose of arresting those people and taking them back to the chief priests?”
[9:22] But Saul's preaching became even more powerful, and his proofs that Jesus was the Messiah were so convincing that the Jews who lived in Damascus could not answer him.
[9:23] After many days had gone by, the Jews met together and made plans to kill Saul,
[9:24] but he was told of their plan. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
[9:25] But one night Saul's followers took him and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.