12 For I did not receive it from a human being, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ. [10]

13 [11] For you heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it, [AI]

14 and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions. [AJ]