1 Corinthians 15:5

Amplified Bible

and that He appeared to Cephas (Peter), then to the Twelve.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
and that he appeared to Peter and then to the twelve apostles.

Revised Standard Version
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and that he he was sene of Cephas then of the twelve.

Hebrew Names Version
and that he appeared to Kefa, then to the twelve.

International Standard Version
and he was seen by Cephas,[fn] and then by the twelve.Matthew 28:17; Mark 16:14; Luke 24:34,36; John 20:19,26; Acts 10:41;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

New Century Version
and that he was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles.

Update Bible Version
and that he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve;

Webster's Bible Translation
And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:

English Standard Version
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

World English Bible
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Afterwards he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once,

Weymouth's New Testament
and was seen by Peter, and then by the Twelve.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and that he was seyn to Cephas, and aftir these thingis to enleuene;

English Revised Version
and that he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve;

Berean Standard Bible
and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.

Contemporary English Version
Christ appeared to Peter, then to the twelve.

American Standard Version
and that he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve;

Bible in Basic English
And he was seen by Cephas; then by the twelve;

Complete Jewish Bible
and he was seen by Kefa, then by the Twelve;

Darby Translation
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Etheridge Translation
And he was seen of Kipha, and after him, of the twelve,

Murdock Translation
and that he was seen by Cephas; and after him, by the twelve:

King James Version (1611)
And that he was seene of Cephas, then of the twelue.

New Living Translation
He was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve.

New Life Bible
Christ was seen by Peter. After that, the twelve followers saw Him.

New Revised Standard
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And that he was seene of Cephas, then of the twelue.

George Lamsa Translation
And that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And that he appeared unto Cephas, then, to the twelve,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And that he was seene of Cephas, then of the twelue:

Good News Translation
that he appeared to Peter and then to all twelve apostles.

Christian Standard Bible®
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.

King James Version
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

Lexham English Bible
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,

Literal Translation
and that He appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.

Young's Literal Translation
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and that he was sene of Cephas, then of the twolue:

Mace New Testament (1729)
that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:

New English Translation
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

New King James Version
and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.

Simplified Cowboy Version
He went and talked to Pete and the other twelve cowboys.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Legacy Standard Bible
and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Contextual Overview

¹Now brothers and sisters, let me remind you [once again] of the good news [of salvation] which I preached to you, which you welcomed and accepted and on which you stand [by faith]. ²By this faith you are saved [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain [just superficially and without complete commitment]. ³For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to [that which] the Scriptures [foretold], ⁴and that He was buried, and that He was [bodily] raised on the third day according to [that which] the Scriptures [foretold], ⁵and that He appeared to Cephas (Peter), then to the Twelve.⁶After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, the majority of whom are still alive, but some have fallen asleep [in death]. ⁷Then He was seen by James, then by all the apostles, ⁸and last of all, as to one untimely (prematurely, traumatically) born, He appeared to me also. ⁹For I am the least [worthy] of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I [at one time] fiercely oppressed and violently persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰But by the [remarkable] grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not without effect. In fact, I worked harder than all of the apostles, though it was not I, but the grace of God [His unmerited favor and blessing which 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
And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you [abundantly], And make your name great (exalted, distinguished); And you shall be a blessing [a source of great good to others];

Genesis 13:16
"I will make your descendants [as numerous] as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the [grains of] dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.

Genesis 15:7
And He said to him, "I am the [same] LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as an inheritance."

Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord GOD, by what [proof] will I know that I will inherit it?"

Genesis 16:10
Then the Angel of the LORD said to her, "I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count."

Genesis 22:17
indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies [by conquering them].

Genesis 26:4
"I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,

Genesis 28:14
"Your descendants shall be as [countless as] the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and the east and the north and the south; and all the families (nations) of the earth shall be blessed through you and your descendants.

Exodus 32:13
"Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel (Jacob), Your servants to whom You swore [an oath] by Yourself, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

Deuteronomy 1:10
'The LORD your God has multiplied you, and look, today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven.

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.