³ explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and rise from the dead: “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah.”^(A)

³ For I passed on to you^(A) as most important what I also received: that Christ died^(B) for our sins according to the Scriptures,^{(C) 4} that he was buried,^(D) that he was raised on the third day^(E) according to the Scriptures,^{(F) 5} and that he appeared to Cephas,^(G) then to the Twelve.^{(H) 6} Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time;^(I) most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep. ⁷ Then he appeared to James,^(J) then to all the apostles.^{(K) 8} Last of all, as to one born at the wrong time,^[a](L) he also appeared to me.^(M)