11. For I make known to you, brothers, the gospel that has been proclaimed by me, that it is not of human origin.
12. For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
13. For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,
14. and was progressing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, because I was a far more zealous adherent of the traditions handed down by my forefathers.