Galatians 1:11-17

11I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the Good News I have spread is not a human message.

12I didn’t receive it from any person. I wasn’t taught it, but Jesus Christ revealed it to me.

13You heard about the way I once lived when I followed the Jewish religion. You heard how I violently persecuted God’s church and tried to destroy it.

14You also heard how I was far ahead of other Jews in my age group in following the Jewish religion. I had become that fanatical for the traditions of my ancestors.

15But God, who appointed me before I was born and who called me by his kindness, was pleased

16to show me his Son. He did this so that I would tell people who are not Jewish that his Son is the Good News. When this happened, I didn’t talk it over with any other person.

17I didn’t even go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went to Arabia and then came back to Damascus.