WPNT(i)
13 You have heard of my former conduct while in Judaism, how I was rabid in my persecution of God’s Church and tried to annihilate it;
14 indeed I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age, being far more zealous for the traditions of my forefathers.
15 But when God—who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace—resolved
16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might proclaim Him among the nations/Gentiles, I did not start by consulting with flesh and blood,
17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before I was; rather I went off into Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.
18 Subsequently, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to compare notes with Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.
19 (I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.
20 Really, before God, I am not lying in what I write to you.)
21 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22 So I remained unknown by face to the congregations of Judea (those in Christ)
23 —they just kept hearing that “He who once persecuted us now proclaims the faith he formerly tried to destroy.”
24 And they glorified God about me.