Galatians 1:11–24

¹¹For I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

¹²For neither did I receive it of man: nor did I learn it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹³For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God and wasted it.

¹⁴And I made progress in the Jew’s religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁵But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace,

¹⁶To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles: immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood.

¹⁷Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the apostles who were before me: but I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus.

¹⁸Then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Peter: and I tarried with him fifteen days.

¹⁹But other of the apostles I saw none, saving James the brother of the Lord.

²⁰Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.

²¹Afterwards, I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

²²And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ:

²³But they had heard only: He, who persecuted us in times past doth now preach the faith which once he impugned.

²⁴And they glorified God in me.