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VISIONARY EXPERIENCES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT According to , . According to , Mary, and the other women, saw "a vision of angels who said that He was alive". According to they saw a young man in a white robe who told them Jesus had risen and they would see him in Galilee . According to "a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it. And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow." According to , Mary saw "two angels in white", "she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus ... Supposing Him to be the gardener", but when Jesus said "Mary!", she called him Rabboni . According to , Saint Peter "became hungry ... fell into a trance" and saw "an object like a great sheet" from Heaven that contained "all kinds of four-footed animals ... crawling creatures ... and birds ... A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"" Peter replied that he'd never eaten anything impure, presumably nothing not Kosher , as he was a Jewish Christian . The voice said "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy." This repeated three times and then the sheet was gone. repeats the story. In an "angel of the Lord" helped Peter escape from prison, he "thought he was seeing a vision". The primary vision of Paul Of Tarsus is in his Road To Damascus conversion experience. In addition, records his vision of "a man of Macedonia" and in the Lord spoke to Paul "by a vision". In Paul wrote that Jesus was "raised on the third day", that "He appeared to Cephas ", then to the Twelve Apostles , then to "more than five hundred brethren at one time", then to James The Just , then to the rest of the apostles, and last of all, to Paul. GOSPEL OF MARY MAGDALENE In several passages of the is reported to be the first person to see the risen Jesus. In the Gospel Of Mary Magdalene , from the 2nd Century CE, she describes this sighting as a divine vision. CRITICAL VIEWS Christian Apologist scholars Gary Habermas and William Lane Craig argue that the hallucination and vision explanations for the resurrection are not plausible [http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/docs/visions.html [http://www.wcg.org/lit/jesus/hist-res.htm] SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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