Acts 9:24

men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And there he spent three months, and when a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

“And when I was informed that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, also instructing his accusers to speak against him before you.”

requesting a favor against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (while they set an ambush to kill him on the way).

but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, practicing deeds appropriate to repentance.

In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,