Galatians 1:11-24

For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin. For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation  of Jesus Christ.  For you have heard about my former way of life  in Judaism:  I intensely persecuted  God’s church and tried to destroy it. I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.  But when God, who from my mother’s womb set me apart and called  me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son  in me, so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.  I did not go up to Jerusalem  to those who had become apostles  before me; instead I went to Arabia  and came back to Damascus.  Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem  to get to know Cephas,  , and I stayed with him fifteen days. But I didn’t see any of the other apostles except James,  the Lord’s brother. I declare in the sight of God: I am not lying in what I write to you. Afterward, I went to the regions of Syria  and Cilicia.  I remained personally unknown to the Judean churches that are in Christ. They simply kept hearing, “He who formerly persecuted  us now preaches the faith  he once tried to destroy.” And they glorified God because of me.

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