New Testament traditions. “Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel.… For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve” (1 Cor 15:1–5, my emphasis). But whether the apostles proclaimed the fulfillment of the Old Testament Scriptures or delivered
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