Galatians 1:14

"I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers." (NIV)

Here Paul refers back to verse 12. "I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age—" This section has the word 'school' stamped all over it. Paul was "advancing in Judaism"— The wording here makes it sound like Judaism is a class, of which Paul is the Valedictorian. Now look back at verse 12: "—nor was I taught it—" If the gospel could have been taught by mere mortal man, Paul would have been the first to learn it. Yet he was the last of the apostles.

Then Paul says, "[I] was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers." But the Message translation of verse 12 says, "I didn't receive it through the traditions—" Again, Paul is making it perfectly obvious where he didn't get the gospel from.