Galatians 1:11-15

Let me make it clear, my friends, regarding the good news I'm declaring—it did not come from any human being.

I didn't receive it from anyone, and nobody taught it to me—it was Jesus Christ who revealed it to me.

You heard how I behaved as a follower of the Jewish religion—how I fanatically persecuted God's church, savagely trying to destroy it.

I surpassed my contemporaries in the practice of the Jewish religion because I was so fervently devoted to the traditions of my ancestors.

But when God (who had set me apart from birth) called me through his grace, and was pleased