<p>15:5 - see on Mt. 17:1; Mk. 16:9.</p><p><i>That he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve</i>- The graciously unrecorded appearing of the risen Lord to Peter (1 Cor. 15:5; Lk. 24:34) may have involved the Lord simply appearing to Him, without words. It was simply the assurance that was there in the look on the face of the Lord. Mary was the first to see the risen Lord (Mt. 28:1; Lk. 24:10; Jn. 20:1). But Paul speaks here in 1 Cor. 15:5 as if Peter was the first witness of the risen Jesus. From his other writings and practice, it&rsquo;s evident that Paul wasn&rsquo;t simply &lsquo;anti-women&rsquo;. But here he&rsquo;s surely making another concession to weakness- for in the first century world, the witness of a woman wasn&rsquo;t acceptable. And so Paul speaks of the first man who saw the resurrected Lord, rather than mention Mary.</p>