1 Corinthians 15:11

11 So if I preached to you or the other apostles preached to you, we all preach the same thing, and this is what you believed.

1 Corinthians 15:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 15:11

Therefore whether it were I or they
By whom Christ was seen first or last, we were all eyewitnesses of him; or whether I am the least, and others the chief of the apostles; or whether I have laboured more abundantly than they all, this matters not:

so we preach;
we agree in our ministry to preach Christ, and him only, and with one heart and mouth assert, that he died, was buried, and rose again the third day:

and so ye believed;
these several truths relating to the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Thus the apostle, after he had made a digression upon his own character, as one of the witnesses of Christ's resurrection, returns to the subject he set out upon in the beginning of the chapter, in order to lead on to the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, which he proves by the resurrection of Christ, in the following verses. One of Stephen's copies read, "so we believed"; and so the Ethiopic version seems to have read; see ( 2 Corinthians 4:13 ) .

1 Corinthians 15:11 In-Context

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.)

11 So if I preached to you or the other apostles preached to you, we all preach the same thing, and this is what you believed.

12 Now since we preached that Christ was raised from the dead, why do some of you say that people will not be raised from the dead?

13 If no one is ever raised from the dead, then Christ has not been raised.