¹¹ Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the gospel I preached isn’t human in origin. ¹² I didn’t receive it or learn it from a human. It came through a revelation from Jesus Christ. ¹³ You heard about my previous life in Judaism, how severely I harassed God’s church and tried to destroy it. ¹⁴ I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my peers, because I was much more militant about the traditions of my ancestors. ¹⁵ But God had set me apart from birth and called me through his grace. He was pleased ¹⁶ to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach about him to the Gentiles. I didn’t immediately consult with any human being. ¹⁷ I didn’t go up to Jerusalem to see the men who were apostles before me either, but I went away into Arabia and I returned again to Damascus. ¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ But I didn’t see any other of the apostles except James the brother of the Lord. ²⁰ Before God, I’m not lying about the things that I’m writing to you! ²¹ Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, ²² but I wasn’t known personally by the Christian churches in Judea. ²³ They only heard a report about me: “The man who used to harass us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.” ²⁴ So they were glorifying God because of me.