for Christ did not send me to baptize: but to preach the gospel: tho' not with the preaching of the wise, lest the cross of Christ should have been hinder'd in its efficacy.

for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness.

after that, he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain alive to this day, but some are now dead.