World English Bible

Galatians 1:17

“nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.”

Verse in context — Galatians 1

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord's brother.

Freedom in Christ, apart from the law, through faith.