Jesus appears to "the TWELVE" after resurrection

[nwink]

If Judas hung himself and Matthias was not elected until after the ascension, how did Jesus appear "to the Twelve" after his resurrection?

1 Corinthians 15:3-5
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.

 

[JOwen]

It was a title or a colloquial term designated for the number of the disciples, though Judas was now dead.

 

[Puritan Sailor]

Matthias was a witness of the all the events of Jesus from the baptism of John to the ascension (Acts 1:21-26). So Christ appeared to him too even though he joined the Twelve later.

 

[Bill The Baptist]

Galatians also tells us that Jesus appeared to Paul, if you want to include him.

 

[SeanPatrickCornell]

"The Twelve" was just the generic title for the inner circle of Jesus' disciples, regardless of who was actually in that group at the time.

 

[MarieP]

It would be kind of like me saying, "When my mom was in grade school." She obviously wasn't my mom then! I think Paul had Matthias in mind.

 

[clark thompson]

The twelve was for the disciples they stayed with Jesus since the first found Him, it could been more than twelve or less but it as His inner crowd.