14. and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions.
15. But when [God], who from my mother’s womb had set me apart and called me through his grace, was pleased
16. to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult flesh and blood,
17. nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; rather, I went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus.
18. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas and remained with him for fifteen days.
19. But I did not see any other of the apostles, only James the brother of the Lord.
20. (As to what I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.)
21. Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22. And I was unknown personally to the churches of Judea that are in Christ;
23. they only kept hearing that “the one who once was persecuting us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
24. So they glorified God because of me.