Acts 9:22-26

But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the Christ.

When many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted together to do away with him,

but their plot became known to Saul. They were also closely watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;

but his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket.

When he came to Jerusalem, he tried repeatedly to associate with the disciples; and yet they were all afraid of him, as they did not believe that he was a disciple.