10. Am I trying to win over human beings or God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I wouldn’t be Christ’s slave.
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,