1st Corinthians Chapter 15 verse 11 Holy Bible
Whether then `it be' I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
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If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.
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Whether, therefore, I or they, thus we preach, and thus ye have believed.
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Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
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Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
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whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Whether it were I or they; namely, who preached this gospel to you. It is not his immediate object to maintain his independent apostolic claims, but only to appeal to the fact of the Resurrection which was preached by all the apostles alike. So. In accordance with the testimony just given (vers. 4-8). We preach. There are in the New Testament two words for "preaching." One is often rendered "prophesy," and refers to spiritual instruction and exhortation. The other, which is used here, is "we proclaim," or "herald" (kerusso), and refers to the statement of the facts of the gospel - Christ crucified and risen (1 Corinthians 2:2; Acts 4:2; Acts 8:5). Besides these, there is the one word for "to preach the gospel," or "evangelize."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Therefore whether . . .--Better, Whether, therefore, it were I or they. Such (see 1Corinthians 15:3-4) was and is our teaching, such was your belief. It matters not from whom it came, whether from the greatest or least of the Apostles, the gospel was preached, and was accepted by you. These words thus recall the reader from the strong personal feeling shown in the preceding verse to the main argument.
