To more than five hundred. None of the Gospels mention this, but MacKnight thinks Matthew 28:10 hints at it. It probably took place in Galilee (Johnson thinks so), but it could have been while they were all still at Jerusalem. Most of whom were still alive. "They are eyewitnesses of all that happened, and the fact that most of them are still living makes it easy to check what I say." Paul had no doubt seen and talked with some of these five hundred.

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