This becomes all the more significant since Luke's Tradition A fits with what we might expect Jesus to have said in a Jewish Messianic context. The task of a historian is to analyze what one might claim, but any attempt to rationally account for what a visionary claims to "see" outside the realm of historical inquiry. To speculate as to where Paul derived the ideas he claims were given to him by revelation is to enter into his personal psychology to a degree to which we have no access. He prefaces his revelation with the claim, "For this I declare to you by the word of the Lord" (1 Thessalonians 4:15). In the same way Paul claims to have received a detailed scenario of precisely what will happen in the future when Jesus returns.
One of the gifts of the spirit was a "word of knowledge," and such a revelation could apply to the past, the present, or the future. Though it might sound strange to us that anyone would claim to have received by revelation a narrative of Jesus' last meal with his disciples, years after the event, Paul considered that sort of thing a normal manifestation of his prophetic connection with the Spirit of Christ.
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