Galatians 1:15-24

¹⁵But when He who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace was pleased ¹⁶to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus.

¹⁸Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him for fifteen days. ¹⁹But I did not see another one of the apostles except James, the Lord’s brother. ²⁰(Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you before God that I am not lying.) ²¹Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²²I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea which are in Christ; ²³but they only kept hearing, “The man who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy.” ²⁴And they were glorifying God because of me.