Now about the things which I write to you, behold,† before God, I’m not lying.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Galatians 1:20 in context
Galatians 1:17–23
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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.
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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.
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But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.
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Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
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I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,
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but they only heard, “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
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