Acts 9:19-20

9:19 and after taking some food, his strength returned.

For several days ¹  he was with the disciples in Damascus, 9:20 and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, ²  saying, “This man is the Son of God.” ³ 

[9:19]  ¹ tn Grk “It happened that for several days.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[9:20]  ² sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

[9:20]  ³ tn The ὅτι (Joti) is understood to introduce direct (“This man is the Son of God”) rather than indirect discourse (“that this man is the Son of God”) because the pronoun οὗτος (Jouto") combined with the present tense verb ἐστιν (estin) suggests the contents of what was proclaimed are a direct (albeit summarized) quotation.