It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the Apostles the Good News that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of, for fear that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless.

But the child of the slave-woman was born in the course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfillment of a promise.

Yet at that time the child born in the course of nature persecuted the child born by the power of the Spirit; and it is the same now.