Galatians 1:11-24

Tree of Life Version

How Paul Was Sent Out

¹¹ Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the Good News proclaimed by me is not man-made. ¹² I did not receive it from any human, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Yeshua the Messiah.

¹³ For you have heard of my earlier behavior in Judaism—how I persecuted God’s community beyond measure and tried to destroy it. ¹⁴ I was even advancing within Judaism beyond many my own age among my people, being a more extreme observer of my fathers’ traditions. ¹⁵ But when God—who set me apart from birth and called me through His grace^[a]—was pleased ¹⁶ to reveal His Son to me so I would proclaim Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with any human. ¹⁷ I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who were emissaries before me, either. Instead I went away to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

¹⁸ Then three years later I went to Jerusalem to visit with Peter, and I stayed with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ But I saw no other emissaries except Jacob, the Lord’s brother. ²⁰ (In what I’m writing you, before God, I do not lie.)

²¹ Then I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²² But I was personally unknown to Messiah’s communities of Judea; ²³ they only kept hearing, “The one who once persecuted us now proclaims the Good News he once tried to destroy!” ²⁴ So they were praising God because of me.