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11 For I tell you plainly, brothers, that the good news that I preached is not a human affair.
12 I did not receive it from any man, and I was not taught it, but it came to me through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion—how furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,
14 and how I surpassed many of my own age among my people in my devotion to Judaism, I was so fanatically devoted to what my forefathers had handed down.
15 And when God, who had set me apart from my birth and had called me in his mercy, saw fit
16 to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the good news about him to the heathen, immediately, instead of consulting with any human being,
17 or going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.