⁸ Therefore produce fruit^(A) consistent with^[a] repentance.

⁸ Therefore produce fruit^(A) consistent with repentance. And don’t start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’^(B) for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

¹⁹ And after taking some food, he regained his strength.^(A)

Saul Proclaiming the Messiah

Saul was with the disciples in Damascus for some time. ²⁰ Immediately he began proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues: “He is the Son of God.”^(B)

²² But Saul grew stronger and kept confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.

Saul in Jerusalem

²⁶ When he arrived in Jerusalem,^(A) he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, since they did not believe he was a disciple. ²⁷ Barnabas, however, took him and brought him to the apostles and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and that the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly^(B) in the name of Jesus.^{(C) 28} Saul was coming and going with them in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. ²⁹ He conversed and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they tried to kill him.^(D)