12For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.
13For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:
14And 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.
15But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,
16To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,
17And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.
18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.
