Galatians 1:14-16

14 And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my fathers.

15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and having called [me] by His grace,

16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the nations, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood;