¹⁰ While he was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came to eat with Jesus and his disciples.^(A)

¹⁰ When they were in the house again, the disciples questioned him about this matter.

Lord of the Sabbath

6 On a Sabbath, he passed through the grainfields.^(A) His disciples were picking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

³ Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with his disciples.

The Damascus Road

9 Now Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples^(A) of the Lord. He went to the high priest^(B)

Saul’s Baptism

¹⁰ There was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.”

“Here I am, Lord,” he replied.^(A)

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.

²⁵ but his disciples took him by night and lowered him in a large basket through an opening in the wall.^(A)

Saul in Jerusalem

²⁶ When he arrived in Jerusalem,^(B) he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, since they did not believe he was a disciple.

⁴ We sought out the disciples and stayed there seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.^(A)

¹⁶ Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us and brought us to Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we were to stay.^(A)