Acts 9:23-27

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.

But Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus at Damascus.