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acomplishedartis:

Kat

So cool you posted all these... That was quiet a journey..

Kat:
Yeah I think I know where they get the 14 years from.

Gal 2:1  Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me.

But if you will notice Paul says "I went up again," so this was not the first time, because he had already said when that first time was in Galatians 1.

Gal 1:15  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,
v. 16  to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,
v. 17  nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
v. 18  Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. 

I think some are confused about his conversion, and then his not going to the other Apostles... so the scholars assume that he must have been somewhere else learning these truths. But that is not what Paul said, and made a point to discount that's what he did at all, as in verse 16-17 saying he intentionally "did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me." Because Paul did not need to be trained by them or any man... because he so expressly states that he was not taught by a man.

Gal 1:11  But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.
v. 12  For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

So when he went straight away off to Arabia and Damascus it was to preach them the gospel. I'm thinking he went up again after 14 years was when Paul and Barnabas went from the church at Antioch to the Apostles for the council at Jerusalem about circumcision was it necessary for non-Jewish convert. At that time Paul was a well established as a Apostle.

Act 15:1  And certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
v. 2  Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.

Anyway that how I read it.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

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