Acts 9:24-27

²⁴but their plot became known to Saul. They started watching the gates day and night, so that they might kill him;

²⁵so the disciples took him by night and passed him through the wall, lowering him in a hamper.

²⁶Now upon arriving in Jerusalem Saul kept trying to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

²⁷But Barnabas took him in tow and brought him to the apostles, and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken fearlessly in the name of the Lord Jesus.