The self-described “liberal, modern, secularized”11 scholar E. P. Sanders says, “That Jesus’ followers, and later Paul, had resurrection experiences is, in my judgment, a fact.”12 David Catchpole, emeritus professor at the University of Exeter, adds, “The appearance to James was . . . not one that could work from an already existing sympathy or commitment. In that respect it was not dissimilar to what happened later to Paul.”13 To this, scholars Shanks and Witherington add, “It appears that James, like Paul, was a convert to the Jesus movement because at some juncture he saw the risen Jesus,
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Scholars support it to be a fact.
