• When Saul, who later became the apostle Paul, learned of the plot by the Jews in Damascus to do away with him, the brothers put him in a basket and lowered him through an opening in the city wall by night, and he escaped. ​ — Acts 9: 22 - 25.
• जेरूसलेममध्ये, पेत्र व इतरांना अटक करून फटके मारण्यात आले आणि येशूच्या नावाने न बोलण्याचा हुकूम देण्यात आला.