The gospel, as he summarized it in 1 Corinthians 15:3–8, is about Jesus the Messiah: that he ‘died for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures’. It matters vitally to Paul that these were real events which really took place. But it matters just as much that they become the lens through which the whole world can be seen in proper focus, the grid on which all reality and experience can be plotted. And here, turning