Damascus

`And when I did not see from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who are with me, I came to Damascus,

`In which things, also, going on to Damascus--with authority and commission from the chief priests--

but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,