^{14 Ref} And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

^{15 Ref} But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

^{16 Ref} To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,