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Witness structure

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Paul's Jerusalem contact narrows the legend window.

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Galatians does not give a video of Easter morning. It gives something more ordinary and still important: Paul knew the Jerusalem leaders, names Cephas and James, and later describes agreement with the recognized pillars. That matters because resurrection proclamation was not drifting without contact points.

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Observation
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Galatians places Paul in real contact with Jerusalem leaders who were already central to the resurrection proclamation. Paul reports visiting Cephas and seeing James, then later names James, Cephas, and John as recognized pillars. This does not prove every resurrection claim. It does make a purely late, isolated, or uncontrolled legend process less comfortable.

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The row is deliberately capped under witness-structure evidence. It preserves the distinct Jerusalem-contact datum without stacking it as though it were independent of the 1 Corinthians 15 creed, James, Cephas, and apostolic witness rows.

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What It Pressures
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Caveats
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Bayesian Meaning
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The active weight is modest: H-RESURRECTION: +0.02; H-ALT-LEGEND: -0.03; H-ALT-CONSPIRACY: -0.02 log10BF. It belongs inside the capped resurrection witness-structure family.

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