witness proof of christ s resurrection immmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm t h e w i t n e s s p r o o f o f j e s u s c h r i s t s r e s u r r e c t i o n f r o m t h e d e a d hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm the witness of the lord jesus christ mark and he began to teach them that the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed and after three days rise again mark for he was teaching his disciples and telling them the son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men and they will kill him and when he has been killed he will rise three days later mark and they will mock him and spit upon him and scourge him and kill him and three days later he will rise again mark but regarding the fact that the dead rise again have you not read in the book of moses in the passage about the burning bush how god spoke to him saying i am the god of abraham and the god of isaac and the god of jacob luke and after they have scourged him they will kill him and the third day he will rise again luke and he said to them thus it is written that the christ should suffer and rise again from the dead the third day john jesus said to her i am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me shall live even if he dies john for as yet they did not understand the scripture that he must rise again from the dead acts explaining and giving evidence that the christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead and saying this jesus whom i am proclaiming to you is the christ the witness of the apostle paul corinthians now i make known to you brethren the gospel which i preached to you which also you received in which also you stand by which also you are saved if you hold fast the word which i preached to you unless you believed in vain for i delivered to you as of first importance what i also received that christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and that he was buried and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures and that he appeared to cephas then to the twelve after that he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time most of whom remain until now but some have fallen asleep then he appeared to james then to all the apostles and last of all as it were to one untimely born he appeared to me also for i am the least of the apostles who am not fit to be called an apostle because i persecuted the church of god but by the grace of god i am what i am and his grace toward me did not prove vain but i labored even more than all of them yet not i but the grace of god with me whether then it was i or they so we preach and so you believed now if christ is preached that he has been raised from the dead how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead but if there is no resurrection of the dead not even christ has been raised and if christ has not been raised then our preaching is vain your faith also is vain moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of god because we witnessed against god that he raised christ whom he did not raise if in fact the dead are not raised for if the dead are not raised not even christ has been raised and if christ has not been raised your faith is worthless you are still in your sins then those also who have fallen asleep in christ have perished if we have hoped in christ in this life only we are of all men most to be pitied but now christ has been raised from the dead the first fruits of those who are asleep for since by a man came death by a man also came the resurrection of the dead for as in adam all die so also in christ all shall be made alive but each in his own order christ the first fruits after that those who are christ s at his coming then comes the end when he delivers up the kingdom to the god and father when he has abolished all rule and all authority and power for he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet the last enemy that will be abolished is death logical proofs of jesus christ s resurrection jesus s enemies would not have stolen his body because that would have perpetrated the resurrection the very opposite of what they desired jesus disciples could not have stolen his body because pontius pilate established guards to stand watch over the tomb lest his body be stolen sadly and ironically many of jesus disciples did not believe in the resurrection until jesus had risen from the dead in nearly centuries no body has ever been produced to refute jesus assertion that he would indeed rise from the dead the probability of being able to perpetrate such a hoax successfully upon the entire world for nearly centuries is astronomically negative
