Acts 9:23-25·~1 min
The Escape from Damascus
After many days the Jews conspire to kill Saul and watch the city gates day and night. But Saul learns of the plot, and one night his disciples lower him in a basket through a window in the wall.
A23fter many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him, 24but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him. 25One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
Section summaryAfter many days, opposition gathers against Saul just as it had against other witnesses before him. A plot forms to kill him, the city gates are watched, and his disciples lower him by night in a basket through an opening in the wall.
Role in the chapterThis short movement shows Saul entering the same pattern of threatened witness that once he helped create. The preacher of Jesus now escapes death through the care of disciples.