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-# Connecting Statement:
-
-After the high priest gave Saul the letters, Saul left for Damascus.
-
 # As he was traveling
 
 Saul left Jerusalem and now travels to Damascus.
 
 # it happened that
 
-This is an expression that marks a change in the story to show something different is about to happen. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-newevent]])
+This is an expression that marks a change in the story to show something different is about to happen. 
 
 # there shone all around him a light out of heaven