15:4
Paul then turns to the fact of the bodily resurrection. The resurrection was not a metaphor. Christ died, He was buried, and He rose from death, never to die again. “According to the Scriptures”, Both His dying for our sins, and His rising from death, were “according to the Scriptures”. Our need for sin to be dealt with is made abundantly clear in the Old Testament. Isaiah 53:5 and 53:12 are the clearest prophecies about Christ dying for our sins. The resurrection is anticipated in passages like Psalm 16:9-11, Psalm 22, Isaiah 53:10,11.
15:5
Having stated that Christ rose from the dead, Paul now gives the evidence, and it is that many people saw the risen Christ. The gospels state that the very first witnesses were women, Paul does not mention any of these by name, referencing only the men by name. This was done because in those times it was only the witness of men that counted. He mentions Cephas (or Peter), interestingly John is not mentioned.
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