Where in Scripture does the gospel of Jesus' death, shed blood, burial, and resurrection first appear?
Scripture first presents the gospel of Jesus' death, shed blood, burial, and resurrection only when it reaches Paul. Before that, the recorded confessions identify Him as the Christ, the Son of the living God, but they do not include the gospel based on His death, shed blood, burial, and resurrection.
Les teaches that the gospel based on Christ's death, shed blood, burial, and resurrection cannot be found in Scripture until you get to Paul. He illustrates this by noting that a statement is often made to say Jesus died for the sins of the world and rose from the dead, but the Bible does not say that; it says these are written that you might believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. The other confessions—Matthew 16 with Peter, John 11 with Martha at Lazarus's death, and Acts 8 with the Ethiopian eunuch and Philip reading Isaiah 53—all confess Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, period, not the Pauline gospel of His death, shed blood, burial, and resurrection.