ekstasis2 Corinthians 12:2-31 Samuel 10:91 Samuel 19:202 Kings 9:11 Samuel 10:52 Kings 3:15-161 Samuel 10:101 Samuel 19:232 Kings 3:151 Samuel 19:241 Samuel 21:152 Kings 9:11Jeremiah 29:26Hosea 9:7Jeremiah 29:26Jeremiah 29:31

In the New Testament Paul's experience of being caught up into the third heaven or paradise (2 Corinthians 12:2-4 ) is an example of an ecstatic experience. Paul twice pleaded ignorance of whether this experience was “in or out of the body.” Paul preferred to boast in his weakness than in such spiritual experiences (2 Corinthians 12:5 ). The gift of speaking in tongues is thought by some to involve an ecstatic state. See Prophecy, Prophets; Tongues, Gift of.