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."

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.