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he got it straight from Jesus,
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he didn't check his Gospel out with them at this point.
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He got it from Jesus.
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Paul is trying to establish his independence from the church inJerusalem
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and he's eventually going to try establishing that
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"I'm just as much an apostle as they are."
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"I went up in response to"
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in other words he went up in response to a revelation.
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God appeared--God told Paul, according to him,
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"Go to Jerusalem."
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He didn't go because the Jerusalem authorities said,
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"We need to check you out