Galatians 1:11-24 - Paul's Defense Of His Apostleship

¹¹ For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel I preach is not man-made; ¹² for neither did I myself receive it from man, nor by man was I taught it, but by a revelation an apocalypse of Jesus Christ.

¹³ For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out; ¹⁴ and how in my zeal for Judaism I outstripped many of my own age and nation, in my special zeal for the traditions of my forefathers. ¹⁵ But when God who had set me apart from my very birth, ¹⁶ and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being, ¹⁷ or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

¹⁸ Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter, and spent two weeks with him. ¹⁹ I saw no other apostle except James, the Lord's brother. ²⁰ (In what I am now writing, I call God to witness that I am telling the truth.)

²¹ Then I went into the districts of Syria and Cilicia. ²² But to the churches of Christ in Judea I was personally unknown; ²³ only they used to hear it said, "He who was once persecuting us is now preaching the gospel of the very faith which he once tried to ruin." ²⁴ And they were giving glory to God on my account.