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Galatians 1:16

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

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Verse 16. I condescended not to flesh and blood. Lit. I did not acquiesce to flesh and blood. I had no regard to temporal friends or advantages. Some expound it, I did not think it necessary to consult the other apostles, men who were my countrymen: and so it follows, I came not to Jerusalem to the apostles, to be instructed by them, having been instructed by Christ himself. Witham.

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