19. But I saw no other emissaries except Jacob, the Lord’s brother.
20. (In what I’m writing you, before God, I do not lie.)
21. Then I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22. But I was personally unknown to Messiah’s communities of Judea;
23. they only kept hearing, “The one who once persecuted us now proclaims the Good News he once tried to destroy!”
24. So they were praising God because of me.