Nor did I go to Jerusalem. "Those who were apostles before I was appointed did not teach me the gospel of Christ." Since the Twelve stayed on in Jerusalem (Acts 8:1), that city was the center of: Christianity; Judaism: the circumcision party. Instead. MacKnight has Paul say: "But I went away into Arabia, where there was no apostle; and having there received further revelations from Christ, and studied the (Old Testament) Scriptures by the light of these revelations, I again returned to Damascus without having seen any of the (Twelve) apostles." As an apostle, Paul had been baptized with the Holy Spirit in the same way that each apostle had been. The Spirit taught the apostles directly John 14:26). Therefore Paul did not receive his gospel second-handedly.

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