15  And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of ^bChebar.

  56  And said, Behold, I see the heavens ^bopened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

  8  And being thus overcome with the Spirit, he was carried away in a vision, even that he saw the ^bheavens open, and he thought he saw God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of angels in the attitude of singing and praising their God.

  14  And it came to pass that I saw the ^aheavens open; and an angel came down and stood before me; and he said unto me: Nephi, what beholdest thou?

  19  To have the privilege of receiving the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, to have the ^bheavens opened unto them, to commune with the general assembly and church of the Firstborn, and to enjoy the communion and presence of God the Father, and Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.

  11  After this vision closed, the heavens were again ^bopened unto us; and Moses appeared before us, and committed unto us the keys of the gathering of Israel from the four parts of the earth, and the leading of the ten tribes from the land of the north.

  3  And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the ^cvisions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

  2  In the ^avisions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

  3  And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the ^avision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

  16  And now I, Nephi, do not make a full account of the things which my father hath written, for he hath written many things which he saw in ^avisions and in dreams; and he also hath written many things which he prophesied and spake unto his children, of which I shall not make a full account.

  24  However, it was nevertheless a fact that I had beheld a ^avision. I have thought since, that I felt much like Paul, when he made his defense before King Agrippa, and related the account of the vision he had when he saw a light, and heard a voice; but still there were but few who believed him; some said he was dishonest, others said he was mad; and he was ridiculed and reviled. But all this did not destroy the reality of his vision. He had seen a vision, he knew he had, and all the persecution under heaven could not make it otherwise; and though they should persecute him unto death, yet he knew, and would know to his latest breath, that he had both seen a light and heard a voice speaking unto him, and all the world could not make him think or believe otherwise.