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I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same
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age, for I was more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
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But when God, who had set me apart before
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I was born, called me through his grace,
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was pleased so that I might proclaim among the Gentiles,
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I did not confer with any human being.
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Now where is Paul at this point according to his own statement?
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We don't know, right?
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But we know one place he's not, and where is that?
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Jerusalem.
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Because then he says,
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"I did not, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to