Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹¹ For I make-known to you, brothers, as to the good-news having been announced-as-good-news by me, that it is not according-to^[a] a human^[b]. ¹² For I neither received it from a human, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of ^[c] Jesus Christ.

For When God Was Pleased To Reveal Himself To Me, I Conferred With No One

¹³ For you heard-of my former conduct in Judaism— that I was persecuting the church of God extremely, and destroying^[d] it. ¹⁴ And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, being far more a zealot for the traditions of my fathers. ¹⁵ But when God— the One having separated me from my mother’s womb^[e] and having called me through His grace— was well-pleased ¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me in order that I might be announcing Him as good news among the Gentiles, I did not immediately communicate^[f] with flesh and blood, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia and returned back to Damascus.

Three Years Later I Went To Jerusalem And Visited Peter And James

¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ But I did not see another of the apostles except^[g] James, the brother of the Lord. ²⁰ Now the things which I am writing to you, behold— I affirm in the sight of God that I am not lying. ²¹ Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²² And I was not-known by face to the churches of Judea in Christ, ²³ but they were only hearing that “the one once persecuting us is now announcing-as-good-news the faith which he was once destroying”. ²⁴ And they were glorifying God in^[h] me.