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.
19But of the other Apostles I saw only James, the Lord's brother.
