" A voice may whisper that it was no image, but only imagination; it was a mirage, a fantasy. But as the water settles, with gentle ripples still visible where the arrows went in, the image will return. We will gaze at it once more, and know that in the Lord our labour is not in vain. "

― N.T. Wright , The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3)