11For I make known to you, brothers, the gospel that was preached by me, that it is not according to a human.12For I did not receive it from a human, nor was I taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ.13For you heard of my former behaviour in Judaism, that I was pursuing the assembly of God beyond measure and was laying waste to it.14And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my family, being already more excessively a zealot for my paternal traditions.15But when the one who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me through his grace was pleased,16to reveal his Son in me so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,17nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who were before me, but I went away into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and I stayed with him for fifteen days.19But I saw none of the other apostles except James the brother of the Lord.20Now what I am writing to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.21Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.22And I remained unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea that are in Christ.23They had only heard that the one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy.24And they were glorifying God because of me.