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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

哥林多前书 15:5

並且曾經向磯法顯現,然後向十二使徒顯現。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Peter;   Zeal, Religious;   Scofield Reference Index - Resurrection;   Thompson Chain Reference - Appears, Christ;   Christ;   Dead, the;   Mortality-Immortality;   Resurrection;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Death;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Day of the lord;   Gospel;   Peter;   Resurrection;   Teacher;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Appear, Appearance;   Numbers, Symbolic Meaning of;   Resurrection;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Annihilation;   Omnipotence of God;   Resurrection;   Resurrection of Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel According to;   Peter;   Resurrection of Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Luke, the Gospel According to;   Peter;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Confessions and Credos;   Cross, Crucifixion;   Disciples;   History;   Peter;   Preaching in the Bible;   Resurrection of Jesus Christ;   Tradition;   Word;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Church Government;   Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Eschatology;   Ethics;   Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Baptism;   Caesarea Philippi;   Gospel;   James ;   Numbers;   Paul (2);   Peter;   Preaching Christ;   Resurrection of Christ;   Surname;   Wisdom;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cephas ;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Corinthians;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eleven, the;   Ministry;   Paul, the Apostle;   Pauline Theology;   Peter, Simon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for September 17;   Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for May 6;   Every Day Light - Devotion for December 1;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
并 且 显 给 矶 法 看 , 然 後 显 给 十 二 使 徒 看 ;

Contextual Overview

1 Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to remember the Good News I brought to you. You received this Good News and continue strong in it. 2 And you are being saved by it if you continue believing what I told you. If you do not, then you believed for nothing. 3 I passed on to you what I received, of which this was most important: that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say; 4 that he was buried and was raised to life on the third day as the Scriptures say; 5 and that he was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles. 6 After that, Jesus was seen by more than five hundred of the believers at the same time. Most of them are still living today, but some have died. 7 Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles. 8 Last of all he was seen by me—as by a person not born at the normal time. 9 All the other apostles are greater than I am. I am not even good enough to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But God's grace has made me what I am, and his grace to me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But it was not I really; it was God's grace that was with me.)

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Luke 24:34, Luke 24:35

Cephas: 1 Corinthians 1:12, 1 Corinthians 3:22, 1 Corinthians 9:5, John 1:42

then: Mark 16:14, Luke 24:36-49, John 20:19-26, Acts 1:2-14, Acts 10:41

Reciprocal: Mark 16:7 - there John 16:16 - a little while John 20:25 - We Acts 1:3 - he showed Acts 13:31 - he was

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.
Genesis 13:16
I will make your descendants as many as the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust on the earth, he could count your people.
Genesis 15:7
God said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you out of Ur of Babylonia so that I could give you this land to own."
Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will own this land?"
Genesis 16:10
The angel also said, "I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted."
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies.
Genesis 26:4
I will give you many descendants, as hard to count as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed.
Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.
Exodus 32:13
Remember the men who served you—Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You promised with an oath to them and said, ‘I will make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised them, and it will be theirs forever.'"
Deuteronomy 1:10
The Lord your God has made you grow in number so that there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And that he was seen of Cephas,.... Or Simon Peter; for Cephas was a name given him by Christ, John 1:42. This was not another Cephas, one of the seventy disciples, as Clemens suggests g, but the Apostle Peter himself, to whom it is certain the Lord appeared. Not that he was the first person by whom Christ was seen after his resurrection, for he first appeared to Mary Magdalene, Mark 16:9 but the testimony of the women the apostle omits, and it seems as if Peter was the first of the men that saw Christ when risen, see Luke 24:34. Whether he was one of the disciples that went to Emmaus, to whom Christ joined himself, and entered into discourse with, is not certain; it should rather seem, that the appearance here referred to was when he was alone;

then of the twelve; though there were then but eleven of them, Judas being gone from them, and having destroyed himself; and at the first appearance of Christ to them, there were but ten present, Thomas being absent; and yet because their original number, when first chosen and called, were twelve, they still went by the same name; see John 20:24. The appearance or appearances here referred to are those in John 20:19. The Vulgate Latin reads the "eleven"; and so the Claromontane exemplar.

g Apud Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 1. c. 12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And that he was seen of Cephas - Peter; See the note at John 1:42. The resurrection of Christ was A fact to be proved, like all other facts, by competent and credible witnesses. Paul, therefore, appeals to the witnesses who had attested, or who yet lived to attest, the truth of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus; and shows that it was not possible that so many witnesses should have been deceived. As this was not the first time in which the evidence had been stated to them, and as his purpose was merely to remind them of what they had heard and believed, he does not adduce all the witnesses to the event, but refers only to the more important ones. He does not, therefore, mention the woman to whom the Saviour first appeared, nor does he refer to all the times when the Lord Jesus manifested himself to his disciples. But he does not refer to them in general merely, but mentions “names,” and refers to persons who “were then alive,” who could attest the truth of the resurrection. It may be observed, also, that Paul observes probably the exact “order” in which the Lord Jesus appeared to the disciples, though he does not mention all the instances. For an account of the persons to whom the Lord Jesus appeared after his resurrection, and the order in which it was done, see the notes on the Gospels.

Then of the twelve - The apostles; still called “the twelve,” though Judas was not one of them. It was common to call the apostles “the twelve.” Jesus appeared to the apostles at one time in the absence of Thomas John 20:19, John 20:24; and also to them when Thomas was present, John 20:24-29. Probably Paul here refers to the latter occasion, when all the surviving apostles were present.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 15:5. That he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve — This refers to the journey to Emmaus, Luke 24:13, Luke 24:34; and to what is related Mark 16:14.

Then of the twelve — Instead of δωδεκα, twelve, ενδεκα, eleven, is the reading of D*EFG, Syriac in the margin, some of the Slavonic, Armenian, Vulgate, Itala, and several of the fathers; and this reading is supported by Mark 16:14. Perhaps the term twelve is used here merely to point out the society of the apostles, who, though at this time they were only eleven, were still called the twelve, because this was their original number, and a number which was afterward filled up. See John 20:24.


 
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