1 CORINTHIANS 15:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.”
Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed — the unity of kerygma across all apostles: Cephas, James, Paul all proclaim the same gospel. The Corinthians' faith rests on this unanimous witness, not on preference for one apostle over another.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:11
“Whether then it be I or they, so we preach.” For the witness ought to be trustworthy, and a great man. But how he “labored more abundantly than they,” he indicated above, saying, “Have we no right to eat and to drink, as also the other Apostles?” And again, “to them that are without law as without law.” Thus, both where exactness was to be displayed, he overshot all: and where there was need to condescend, he displayed again the same great superiority. But some cite his…
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