Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship

¹¹ For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not man’s^[a] gospel. ¹² For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it;