Galatians 1:15

¹³  For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

¹⁴  And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

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

¹⁶  To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

¹⁷  Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.