17 I didn’t go up to Jerusalem to see the men who were apostles before me either, but I went away into Arabia and I returned again to Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days.
19 But I didn’t see any other of the apostles except James the brother of the Lord.
20 Before God, I’m not lying about the things that I’m writing to you!
21 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,
22 but I wasn’t known personally by the Christian churches in Judea.
23 They only heard a report about me: "The man who used to harass us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy."