If you say that Paul is referring to only a vision in 2 Cor 12:1-4, then what is the difference between an "in the body" and "out of the body" vision? 2 Cor 12:1-4 - I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. The definition of revelation according to Merriam Webster Dictionary is: 1 a : an act of revealing or communicating divine truth b : something that is revealed by God to humans.