This cannot be reconciled with the Synoptics, who state that during his ministry he had acquainted them with it. "From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day" (Matthew xvi, 21; Mark viii, 31; Luke ix, 22). 432 Paul says that the last appearance of Jesus was to him. What did his companions do when they saw the light which attended the appearance? Acts: "The men which journeyed with him stood speechless" (ix, 7). Paul: "We were all fallen to the earth" (Acts xxvi, 14). 433 Did Paul's companions see Jesus? Acts: They did not. "The men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man" (ix, 7). This shows that Jesus' alleged appearance to Paul was an imaginary and not a real appearance. 434 The author of Acts says that his companions heard a voice. Is this true? Paul: "They that were with me ... heard not the voice" (Acts xxii, 9). 435 Was Jesus seen by woman after his resurrection? Matthew, Mark and John: He was. Luke and Paul: He was not. According to Luke and Paul his most faithful followers were not honored by a visit from their Lord, but were neglected and ignored. The resurrection was not for woman. Nowhere is sex prejudice more conspicuous than in the accounts of the resurrection written by Paul and the Pauline Evangelist. To ignore the testimony of Mary Magdalene is to ignore the testimony of the chief witness for the resurrection. 436 From where did Jesus rise? All: From the dead. "He is risen from the dead" (Matt. xxviii, 7). "It behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead" (Luke xxiv, 46). "He was risen from the dead" (John xxi, 14). According to the Evangelists Jesus rose, not from the grave--not from the place where the bodies of the dead were deposited--but from the lower world--from the realm of the dead--where the shades of the departed were supposed to repose. Regarding this Dr. Hooykaas says: "Let us begin by considering what that word 'resurrection' really meant, whether applied to Jesus or to others. Later representations, down to our own times, have regarded it as equivalent to a rising from the grave; but the question is, what it meant in the faith and preaching of the Apostles, in the genuine, original, primitive tradition that Jesus had risen. Now, 'resurrection' means elsewhere a return from the realm of shades to the human life on earth; and Jesus too had left the underworld, but not, in this case, to return at once to life upon the earth, but to be taken up provisionally into heaven. Originally the resurrection and ascension of Jesus were one. It was only later that the conception sprang up of his having paused upon earth, whether for a single day or for several weeks, on his journey from the abyss to the height.