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How many believers were there at the time of the ascension?
The passages count different gatherings, not explicitly the total number of believers at one time.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
A gathering of 120 disciples and a separate appearance to over 500 believers are not competing totals for the same population or event.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
About one hundred twenty disciples gather with Peter
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
Acts 1:15
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Acts 1
More than five hundred people witness an appearance together
After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:6
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:1 Corinthians 15