Why did the Jews lie about Jesus?

[Jehanne]

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Yeah, let's hear what 1 Cor. 15 has to say: "5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve."

I mean from the start you can see that Paul is lying because there were only eleven, Judas having died.

The Twelve was a technical name, widely used in the Early Church, for the inner circle of Jesus' followers. There is more than a nod to the 12 tribes of Israel. Judas was fairly quickly replaced. 

Hence the capital letter, and the appropriate continued use even when there were temporarily 11 of them.

Vicky,

You are taking your "cues" from a group of individuals who believed that the Earth was flat:

Flat Earth Doctrine

This is one reason (out of many) that the Greek & Roman intelligentsia did not take the early Christian writings seriously.

Dawn