Damascus

When I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.

“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were emissaries before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.