Acts 9:16-24

¹⁶I will show him what he'll have to suffer for my name's sake.”

¹⁷So Ananias left and went to the house. He placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “The Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were traveling here, has sent me so you can regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

¹⁸Immediately, something like scales fell from his eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized.

¹⁹He also had something to eat and felt stronger. Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus.

²⁰He immediately started speaking in the synagogues, saying, “Jesus is the Son of God.”

²¹All who heard him were amazed, and asked, “Isn't this the man who caused so much trouble in Jerusalem for those who believed in Jesus? Wasn't he coming here to have the believers arrested and taken in chains to the chief priests?”

²²Saul grew more and more confident, proving Jesus was the Messiah so convincingly that the Jews who lived in Damascus could not refute him.

²³Some time later the Jews plotted together to kill him,

²⁴but Saul learned of their intentions. Day and night they waited by the city gates looking for the chance to murder him.