Paul’s Defense of His Apostleship

¹¹ For I make known to you, brothers, the gospel that has been proclaimed by me, that it is not of human origin^[a]. ¹² For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,