For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Translate, 'For not even did I (anymore than the other apostle) receive it from х para (G3844), not synonymous with apo (G575): para implies the more immediate source; apo, the more remote, 1 Corinthians 11:23] man, nor was I taught it (by man).' "Received it" implies the absence of labour in acquiring it. "Was I taught it" implies the labour of learning.
By the revelation of Jesus Christ - `by revelation of (i:e., from) Jesus Christ,' by His revealing it to me. Probably this took place during the three years in part of which he sojourned in Arabia (Galatians 1:17-18), near the scene of giving the law: a fit place for the revelation of Gospel grace, which supersedes the ceremonial law (Galatians 4:25). He, like other Pharisees who embraced Christianity, did not at once recognize its independence of the Mosaic law, but combined both. Ananias, his first instructor, was universally esteemed for legal piety, and was not likely to have taught him to sever Christianity from the law. This severance was partially recognized after the martyrdom of Stephen. Paul received it by special revelation (1 Corinthians 11:23; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:15). A vision of the Lord is mentioned (Acts 22:18) at his first visit to Jerusalem; but this seems to have been subsequent to the revelation here (cf. Galatians 1:15-18), and confined to giving a particular command. The vision, 'fourteen years before' (2 Corinthians 12:1, etc.) was in A.D. 43 AD, still later, six years after his conversion. Thus Paul is an independent witness to the Gospel. Though he received no instruction from the apostles, but from the Holy Spirit, yet when he met them, his gospel exactly agreed with theirs.