Acts 9:16-24

¹⁶for I will show him how much he must suffer for the cause of my name.”

¹⁷So Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road when you were coming, has sent me so that you might receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

¹⁸Immediately something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he received his sight; he arose and was baptized;

¹⁹and he ate and was strengthened. He stayed with the disciples in Damascus for several days.

²⁰Right away he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying that he is the Son of God.

²¹All who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who destroyed those in Jerusalem who called on this name? He has come here to take them bound to the chief priests.”

²²But Saul became more and more powerful, and he was causing distress among the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.

²³After many days, the Jews planned together to kill him.

²⁴But their plan became known to Saul. They watched the gates day and night in order to kill him.