~ 6 Eyewitness Incidents
Involving Many Individuals & Days ~
1 Corinthians
15 is considered by many to be “The Great Resurrection Chapter” contains six
different instances of eyewitness accounts of the risen Savior.
6
Eyewitness Accounts
~ “For I
delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for
our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose
again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that
(1) He was seen by Cephas
[Peter],
(2) then by the
twelve.
(3) After that He was seen
by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the
present, but some have fallen asleep.
(4) After that He was seen
by James,
(5) then by all the
apostles [a large number, c.f. the twelve mentioned earlier.
(6) Then last of all He
was seen by me [the Apostle Paul] also, as by one born out of due time” (1
Corinthians 15:3-8).
Eyewitness Accounts Over 40 Days ~ “The former account [The
Gospel According to Luke, by Dr. Luke] I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus
began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He
through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had
chosen, to whom He also presented Himself
alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during
forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” (Acts
1:1-3).
~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW
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