And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

neither returned to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me: but went my ways into Arabia, and came again unto Damascus.

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas, but I spent only two weeks with him;

After that I went into the coasts of Syria and Cilicia:

Then fourteen years thereafter, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took with me Titus also.

Yea, and I went up by revelation, and commended with them of the gospel, which I preach among the gentiles - but between ourselves with them which were counted chief, lest it should have been thought that I should run, or had run in vain.

But [all went well, for] not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled [as some had anticipated] to be circumcised, despite the fact that he was a Greek.

For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways.

But when I saw that they went not the right way after the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter, before all men, "If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the gentiles, and not as do the Jews: why causest thou the gentiles to live as do the Jews?"

[I went on to say] “We are Jews by birth and not sinners from among the Gentiles;