Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, taking Titus along too.

As you can verify for yourself, not more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running – or had not run – in vain.