but Saul found out about the plot. They watched the city gates day and night, in order to kill him,

When I was at Damascus, the governor under King Aretas had the city gates watched in order to catch me,

And so Jesus too, in order to purify the people by his blood, suffered death outside the city gate.

They passed the first guard and then the second, and came to the iron gate that led into the city. It opened to them of itself, and they passed out and went along one street, when suddenly the angel left him.

The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate made of a single pearl. The principal street of the city was pure gold, as transparent as glass.