Galatians 1:12

Weymouth New Testament

For, in fact, it was not from man that I received or learnt it, but by a revelation from Jesus Christ.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

King James Version (1611)
For I neither receiued it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the reuelation of Iesus Christ.

King James Version
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

English Standard Version
For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

New American Standard Bible
For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

New Century Version
I did not get it from humans, nor did anyone teach it to me, but Jesus Christ showed it to me.

Amplified Bible
For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a [direct] revelation of Jesus Christ.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Legacy Standard Bible
For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Berean Standard Bible
I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

Contemporary English Version
It wasn't given or taught to me by some mere human. My message came directly from Jesus Christ when he appeared to me.

Complete Jewish Bible
because neither did I receive it from someone else nor was I taught it — it came through a direct revelation from Yeshua the Messiah.

Darby Translation
For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I taught [them], but by revelation of Jesus Christ.

Easy-to-Read Version
I did not get my message from any other human. The Good News is not something I learned from other people. Jesus Christ himself gave it to me. He showed me the Good News that I should tell people.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For neither receiued I it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the reuelation of Iesus Christ.

George Lamsa Translation
For I did not receive it nor learn it from man, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Good News Translation
I did not receive it from any human being, nor did anyone teach it to me. It was Jesus Christ himself who revealed it to me.

Lexham English Bible
For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Literal Translation
For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it , but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

American Standard Version
For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

Bible in Basic English
For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

Hebrew Names Version
For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Yeshua the Messiah.

International Standard Version
For I did not receive it from a man, nor was I taught it, but I received itI received it">[fn] through a revelation of Jesus Christ.1 Corinthians 15:1,3; Galatians 1:1; Ephesians 3:3;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
for neither from man had I received it and taught it, but by the revelation of Jeshu the Meshiha.

Murdock Translation
For I did not receive it and learn it from man, but [fn] by revelation from Jesus the Messiah.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I neither receaued it of man, neither was I taught [it] but by the reuelation of Iesus Christe.

English Revised Version
For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

World English Bible
For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For neither did I receive it from man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ne Y took it of man, ne lernyde, but bi reuelacioun of Jhesu Crist.

Update Bible Version
For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through revelation of Jesus Christ.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I neither received it from man, neither was I taught [it], but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

New English Translation
For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

New King James Version
For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

New Living Translation
I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ.

New Life Bible
I did not receive it from man. No one taught it to me. I received it from Jesus Christ as He showed it to me.

New Revised Standard
for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For neither, from man, did I accept it, nor was taught it , - but through a revealing of Jesus Christ.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For neither did I receive it of man: nor did I learn it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Revised Standard Version
For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
nether receaved I it of ma nether was I taught it: but receaved it by the revelacion of Iesus Christ.

Young's Literal Translation
for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught [it], but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I nether receaued it ner lerned it of ma, but by the reuelacion of Iesus Christ.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Men didn't teach me what to say, Jesus himself did.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser, I should not be Christ's bondservant. ¹¹ For I must tell you, brethren, that the Good News which was proclaimed by me is not such as man approves of. ¹² For, in fact, it was not from man that I received or learnt it, but by a revelation from Jesus Christ. ¹³ For you have heard of my early career in Judaism--how I furiously persecuted the Church of God, and made havoc of it; ¹⁴ and how in devotion to Judaism I outstripped many men of my own age among my people, being far more zealous than they on behalf of the traditions of my forefathers. ¹⁵ But when He who set me apart even from my birth, and called me by His grace, ¹⁶ saw fit to reveal His Son within me in order that I might tell among the Gentiles the Good News concerning Him, at once I did not confer with any human being, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were my seniors in the Apostleship, but I went away into Arabia, and afterwards came back to Damascus. ¹⁸ Then, three years later, I went up to Jerusalem to inquire for Peter, and I spent a fortnight with him. ¹⁹ I saw none of the other Apostles, except James, the Lord's brother.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Matthew 16:17 - for Acts 22:14 - hear Acts 26:16 - in the 1 Corinthians 11:23 - I have 1 Corinthians 15:3 - I delivered 2 Corinthians 12:1 - visions Galatians 1:1 - not Galatians 1:16 - immediately Ephesians 1:9 - made Ephesians 3:3 - by 1 Peter 1:12 - it Revelation 1:1 - Revelation

Cross-References

Mark 4:28
Of itself the land produces the crop-- first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.

Luke 6:44
Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes.

2 Corinthians 9:10
And God who continually supplies seed for the sower and bread for eating, will supply you with seed and multiply it, and will cause your almsgiving to yield a plentiful harvest.

Galatians 6:7
Do not deceive yourselves. God is not to be scoffed at. For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I neither received it of man,.... Not from Gamaliel, at whose feet he was brought up; he received the law from him, and knowledge in the Jews' religion, and in the traditions of the elders, but not a whit of the Gospel; on the contrary, he received prejudices against it from him, or was strengthened in them by him; no, nor from the apostles of Christ neither, whom he saw not, had no conversation with for some years, after he was a preacher of the Gospel, and therefore did not receive it at their hands; no, nor from Ananias, nor any other man:

neither was I taught it: that is, by man; he did not learn it of men, as men learn law, physics, logic, rhetoric, natural philosophy, and other things at school:

but by the revelation of Jesus Christ; meaning, not through Christ being revealed to him by the Father, as in Galatians 1:16 though it is a sense not to be overlooked; but by Christ, the revealer of it to him; and regards either the time of his rapture into the third heaven, when he heard words not to be uttered; or rather since that is not so certain when it was, the time of his conversion, when Christ personally appeared unto him, and made him a minister of his Gospel; and immediately from himself, without the interposition, or use of any man, or means, gave him such light into it, and such a furniture of mind for the preaching of it, that he directly, as soon as ever he was baptized, set about the ministration of it, to the admiration of the saints, and confusion of the enemies of Christ. These words furnish out another proof of the deity of Christ; for if the Gospel is not after man, nor received of, or taught by man, but by Christ, then Christ cannot be a mere man, or else being by him, it would be by man; and which also confirms the authority and validity of the Gospel, and carries in it a strong reason for the apostle's anathematizing all such as preach any other.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I neither received it of man - This is very probably said in reply to his opponents, who had maintained that Paul had derived his knowledge of the gospel from other people, since he had not been personally known to the Lord Jesus, or been of the number of those whom Jesus called to be his apostles. In reply to this, he says, that he did not receive his gospel in any way from man.

Neither was I taught it - That is, by man. He was not taught it by any written account of it, or by the instruction of man in any way. The only plausible objection to this statement which could be urged would be the fact that Paul had an interview with Ananias Acts 9:17 before his baptism, and that he would probably receive instructions from him. But to this it may be replied:

1. That there is no evidence that Ananias went into an explanation of the nature of the Christian religion in his interview with Paul;
2. Before this, Paul had been taught what Christianity was by his encounter with the Lord Jesus on the way to Damascus Acts 9:5; Acts 26:14-18;
3. The purpose for which Ananias was sent to him in Damascus was that Paul might receive his sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit, Acts 9:17. Whatever instructions he may have received through Ananias, it is still true that his call was directly from the Lord Jesus, and his information of the nature of Christianity from Jesus’ revelation.

But by the revelation of Jesus Christ - On his way to Damascus, and subsequently in the temple, Acts 22:17-21. Doubtless, he received communications at various times from the Lord Jesus with regard to the nature of the gospel and his duty. The sense here is, that he was not indebted to people for his knowledge of the gospel, but had derived it entirely from the Saviour.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. I neither received it of man — By means of any apostle, as was remarked Galatians 1:1. No man taught me what I have preached to you.

But by the revelation of Jesus Christ. — Being commissioned by himself alone; receiving the knowledge of it from Christ crucified.