19 Bible Verses on the Resurrection, and the Creed That Is Older Than the Gospels

Christian Pure Team

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  • The oldest written account is a four-line creed Paul says he received, older than any Gospel and naming witnesses who were still alive.
  • Paul gives the claim its own defeat condition: if Christ has not been raised, the preaching and the faith are empty.
  • Every Gospel puts women at the tomb first, in a world that discounted their testimony.
  • Luke records that the Lord appeared to Simon and never tells us what was said.
  • The risen figure in Revelation still describes himself as the one who was dead.

The oldest written account of the resurrection is not in any Gospel. It is four lines in a letter, and Paul says he is passing on something he received — the technical language for handing over a fixed formula. He then names the people who saw it, most of them alive when he wrote, and invites anyone to go and ask. That creed is older than Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and quite possibly within a few years of the…

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Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version.

The list of witnesses, ending with the note that most remain alive, is at 1 Corinthians 15:5-8.

The earliest manuscripts of Mark end at 16:8, with the women saying nothing to anyone.

Mary mistakes Jesus for the gardener at John 20:15. The disciples’ failure to understand is at John 20:9.

Luke addresses Theophilus and states his method at Luke 1:1-4 and Acts 1:1.

Paul quotes Hosea 13:14 at 1 Corinthians 15:55.

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