11 But I make known unto you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not according to man. 12 For I did not receive it nor learn it from man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in Judaism, how that beyond measure I was persecuting and destroying the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God 14 And profited in Judaism above many of my equals in my own nation, being exceedingly more zealous of the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, 16 to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood, 17 neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But I saw none of the other apostles, except James the Lord’s brother. 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I do not lie. 21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia 22 and was unknown by face unto the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of Judaea which were in Christ, 23 but they had only heard, That he who persecuted us in time past now preaches the faith which he once destroyed. 24 And they glorified God in me.