proclaim the message about Jesus: “that which we have seen and heard [and “touched”! 1 John 1:1] we proclaim also to you” (1 John 1:3). He aligns himself with those few men who qualify to be apostles because they witnessed “all that he [Jesus] did” (Acts 10:39; cf. 1:21–22; Luke 1:2) and were “chosen by God as witnesses” (Acts 10:41). So, then, in sum, the “we” representing the “apostolic we,” as it is sometimes called, best explains the language of ear, eye, and hand testimony, as well as the whole