Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Dale Allison admits that there are apparition accounts in which not everybody present can see the apparition. (Ya think?) But despite his insinuation that this has some connection with the "recurrent notice of doubt" in the Gospel accounts, this is actually a strong *dissimilarity* with the Gospel accounts, in which it is strongly implied that everybody present can see and interact with Jesus. And in Acts 1 we're told definitely that the earliest body of believers knew who had and hadn't seen Jesus after his resurrection and that they were thereby able to pick out Matthias and Joseph Barsabbas as candidates to replace Judas Iscariot and testify boldly to the resurrection.
Thumbnail: Banquo's ghost at the feast as portrayed by the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Photo by Joy Strotz.
Dale Allison admits that there are apparition accounts in which not everybody present can see the apparition. (Ya think?) But despite his insinuation that this has some connection with the "recurrent notice of doubt" in the Gospel accounts, this is actually a strong *dissimilarity* with the Gospel accounts, in which it is strongly implied that everybody present can see and interact with Jesus. And in Acts 1 we're told definitely that the earliest body of believers knew who had and hadn't seen Jesus after his resurrection and that they were thereby able to pick out Matthias and Joseph Barsabbas as candidates to replace Judas Iscariot and testify boldly to the resurrection.
Thumbnail: Banquo's ghost at the feast as portrayed by the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Photo by Joy Strotz.
