¹¹For I make known to you, brothers, the gospel that has been proclaimed by me, that it is not of human origin^b. ¹²For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it, ¹⁴and was progressing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, because^* I was a far more zealous adherent of the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

¹⁵But when the one who set me apart^c from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace was pleased ¹⁶to reveal his Son in me in order that I would proclaim the gospel about him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not consult with flesh and blood, ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia and I returned again to Damascus. ¹⁸Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days, ¹⁹but I did not see any others of the apostles except James, the brother of the Lord. ²⁰(Now the things which I am writing to you, behold, I assure you before God that I am not lying.) ²¹Then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia, ²²but I was unknown in person^d to the churches of Judea that are in Christ, ²³and they were only hearing, “The one formerly persecuting us is now proclaiming the faith that formerly he was attempting to destroy,” ²⁴and they were glorifying God because of me.

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Footnotes

bLiterally “according to man”
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was”) which is understood as causal
cSome manuscripts have “when God who set me apart”
dLiterally “by face”