Galatians 1:11–24

¹¹And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man, ¹²for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ, ¹³for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it, ¹⁴and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers’ deliverances, ¹⁵and when God was well pleased—having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace— ¹⁶to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood, ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus, ¹⁸then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days, ¹⁹and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord. ²⁰And the things that I write to you, lo, before God—I lie not; ²¹then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia, ²²and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that are in Christ, ²³and only they were hearing, that ‘he who is persecuting us then, doth now proclaim good news—the faith that then he was wasting;’ ²⁴and they were glorifying God in me.

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